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A Political Economy of Justice
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Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people interact in this next era of the world? A Political Economy of Justice considers the strained state of our political economy in terms of where it can go from here. The contributors to this timely and essential volume look squarely at how normative and positive questions about political economy interact with each other—and from that beginning, how to chart a way forward to a just economy.
A Political Economy of Justice collects fourteen essays from prominent scholars across the social sciences, each writing in one of three lanes: the measures of a just political economy; the role of firms; and the roles of institutions and governments. The result is a wholly original and urgent new benchmark for the next stage of our democracy.
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people interact in this next era of the world? A Political Economy of Justice considers the strained state of our political economy in terms of where it can go from here. The contributors to this timely and essential volume look squarely at how normative and positive questions about political economy interact with each other—and from that beginning, how to chart a way forward to a just economy.
A Political Economy of Justice collects fourteen essays from prominent scholars across the social sciences, each writing in one of three lanes: the measures of a just political economy; the role of firms; and the roles of institutions and governments. The result is a wholly original and urgent new benchmark for the next stage of our democracy.
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Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Josh Simons is a postdoctoral fellow in technology and democracy at the Edmond J. Safra Centre for Ethics at Harvard University. Leah Downey is a PhD candidate in government at Harvard University and a visiting academic at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute.
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Despite polarized attitudes, Rebecca Henderson argues that it's the perfect time for companies to reset their moral compass. In an essay from the book A Political Economy of Justice, she explores the social efforts of Cadbury and Unilever. Henderson says companies and societies have long had qualms about the pursuit of profit only for profit’s sake. In early capitalist Renaissance Italy, for instance, lending money was considered a sin. Plus, she points to Walmart, founded in 1962 with a mission of making consumer goods more affordable for a broader swath of low-income Americans. Her chapter, “Reimagining Capitalism: Could Purpose-Driven Firms Help to Build a Just and Sustainable World?” also explores corporate partnerships that support social good, such as one that Unilever pioneered to unite a group of companies to sustainably produce palm oil.
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Introduction
1 - PART 1. NEW GOALS FOR A JUST ECONOMY
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1 Power and Productivity: Institutions, Ideology , and Technology in Political Economy
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2 Building a Good Jobs Economy
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3 The Political Philosophy of RadicalxChange
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4 On Flourishing: Political Economy and the Pursuit of Well- Being in the Polity
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5 Beyond the Perpetual Pursuit of Economic Growth
140 - PART 2. NEW ASPIRATIONS FOR FIRMS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
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6 What’s Wrong with the Prison Industrial Complex?
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7 Firms, Morality, and the Search for a Better World
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8 Corporate Purpose in a Post-Covid World
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9 Corporate Engagement in the Political Process and Democratic Ideals
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10 The Just and Democratic Platform? Possibilities of Platform Cooperativism
263 - PART 3. THE ROLE OF DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, AND GOVERNANCE IN A JUST ECONOMY
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11 New Rules for Revolutionaries: Reflections on the Democratic Theory of Economic System Change
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12 Structural Justice and the Infrastructure of Inclusion
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13 Governing Money Democratically: Rechartering the Federal Reserve
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14 Polypolitanism
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Contributors
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Keywords for this book
justice; ethics; legal studies; entrepreneur; entrepreneurial; internet; society; technology; democracy; politics; political; economy; economic; government; governing; socio-political; markets; social sciences; institutions; united states of america; american culture; usa; normative; engagement; capitalism; just; ideology; institutional; organizations; philosophy; immigration policy; immigrants; federal reserve; platforms; morality; morals; profit
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