Abstract
This chapter explores ‘competitiveness’ as an important object of governance. It asks how competition is integrated into state projects and practices and what are the discursive and material dimensions of competition considered as a social construct and social constraint. It examines the representations of competition in liberalism and neo-liberalism in terms of economic, political, and ideological imaginaries and the limits to their reproduction in terms of the complexities of capitalist social relations. It then explores the complexities of competition and their role in differential accumulation. It considers competition law and the competition state as efforts to steer competition. It identifies limits to competition relative to other modes of governance and ‘metagovernance’ as a response to these limits. Finally, it shows how the fetishization of competition subsumes society under the logic of capitalism.
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