Download or read book The Competent Public Sphere written by J. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggesting that an expressive ideology has arisen within the workplace public sphere around the theme of 'competence', this book explores the hegemony of global finance and the fetishism of the new economy, exposing the dilemmas of the competence agenda, and illustrating how competence is played out in the workplace public sphere.