Entrepreneur-in-Chief: The New Model City (Gapers Block)

"What we're feeling viscerally, but seeing from too close to appreciate, is the logical end of decades of neoliberalization of government, which has transformed a managerial state into an entrepreneurial one. Our mayors are now "entrepreneurs-in-chief," and the result is that governance has been transformed from a participatory process of pooling resources and regulating behavior for the public good into one of government by private negotiation and enticement of capital through competition between states, cities and even neighborhoods."