'The essays in Privatising the State are among the most original, provocative, and useful assessmentsof the intersection of public and private power that I have read in the last decade. [A...] Hibou's own contribution offers especially powerful challenges to the conventions of both neo-liberal and leftist discourse on globalisation and privatisation as the dominant international trend for the relation between ... Read moregovernments and the economy.' -Professor Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University'Privatizing the State is an exciting book that will appeal to readers across many disciplines and to specialists on Africa, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The audience will include students in political economy, development economics, economic anthropology, critics of the IMF and the World Bank (including many from within those institutions), and almost anyone interested in making sense of the supposed 'failures' of neoliberal reform, the power attributed to the processes of globalization, or the current political and economic crises that appear to characterise so many regions of the world.'-Professor Timothy Mitchell, New York University Show Less