ABSTRACT
David Harvey contends that, under neoliberalism, innovations in financial service led to 'the financialization of everything', and Michael Winter's preoccupation with finance in The Architects Are Here extends beyond David's activities in the investment world to what has been described as the redefinition of the subject under neoliberalism. Neoliberalism's emphasis on the liberalization of trade, the supremacy of finance and the market, and the virtues of competitive individualism is very much echoed by David's pronouncements, movements, and actions in the novel. In The Architects Are Here, neoliberalism's promotion of competitive individualism, first of all, is very much exemplified by David's laissez-faire sensibility and his aggressiveness as a trader. As Douglas Ivison and Justin D. Edwards focus on the shift from the rural to the urban suggests, though, the local can be defined on various scales, and it is important to recognize the process of glocalization as a more complex interpenetration of these different levels.
