Using Norbert Elias’ Concept of the Established and the Outsiders, Explain the Social Consequences of China’s Move Towards the Post-Washington, Post-Beijing Consensus.
Introduction This paper explores the relationship between two apparently different themes – the essentially postmodern, 20th century “established and outsider” social philosophy expounded by Norbert Elias (Elias and Scotson, 1994) and the distinctly 21st century and essentially economic programme encapsulated in the Post-Washington, Post-Beijing Consensus (PWBC) (Peerenboom, 2014). Every policy, however, has social consequences, and […]