The Concept of Governance in the Spirit of Capitalism

Through combining insights from political economy and sociology, this article explains the early genesis of the policy notion of governance in relation to ideological changes in capitalism. Such an approach has tended to be neglected in existing conceptual histories, in the process, undermining a sharper politicization of the term and how it became normalized. The argument dissects how the emergence of governance can be understood in light of a relationship between political crises, social critique and justificatory arguments (centered around security and justice claims) that form part of an ideological ‘spirit of capitalism’. Through a distinctive comparison between the creation of ‘corporate governance’ in the 1970s and the formulation of a ‘governance agenda’ by the World Bank from the 1980s, the article elucidates how the concept, within certain policy uses, but by no means all, can reflect and help constitute a neoliberal spirit of capitalism

Contamination of hospital water with Aspergillus fumigatus and other molds.

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Acremonium strictum fungaemia in a paediatric patient with acute leukemia

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Recovery of filamentous fungi from water in a paediatric bone marrow transplantation unit

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Brain gain: a future of genetically enhanced intelligence

Developments in genetics have made it difficult to reject the existence of a genetic component of intelligence. Genetic research will soon describe the genetic components of intelligence and their interactions with environmental variables. Ethical questions arising from this research include the potential harm from administering genetic tests, the potential for widespread social discrimination, the allocation of resources to this research and the use of the results of this research to develop therapies to increase intelligence.This article was written by Dr Ainsley Newson during the time of her employment with the University of Bristol, UK (2006-2012). Self-archived in the Sydney eScholarship Repository with permission of Bristol University, Sept 2014