A Political Economy of Justice
Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Professor Rebecca Henderson, Josh Simons
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Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9780226818429
- Published:
- 29 Apr 2022
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Dimensions:
- 400 pages - 229 x 152 x 33mm
- Number of Illustrations:
- 3 line drawings
- Availability:
- Available
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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.
Introduction D. Allen, Y. Benkler, L. Downey, R. Henderson, and J. Simons Part 1. New Goals for a Just Economy 1 Power and Productivity: Institutions, Ideology, and Technology in Political Economy Yochai Benkler 2 Building a Good Jobs Economy Dani Rodrik and Charles Sabel 3 The Political Philosophy of RadicalxChange E. Glen Weyl 4 On Flourishing: Political Economy and the Pursuit of Well-Being in the Polity Deva Woodly 5 Beyond the Perpetual Pursuit of Economic Growth Julie L. Rose Part 2. New Aspirations for Firms and Other Organizations 6 What’s Wrong with the Prison Industrial Complex? Profit, Privatization, and the Circumstances of Injustice Tommie Shelby 7 Firms, Morality, and the Search for a Better World Rebecca Henderson 8 Corporate Purpose in a Post-Covid World Malcolm S. Salter 9 Corporate Engagement in the Political Process and Democratic Ideals F. Christopher Eaglin 10 The Just and Democratic Platform? Possibilities of Platform Cooperativism Juliet B. Schor and Samantha Eddy Part 3. The Role of Democratic Associations, Institutions, and Governance in a Just Economy 11 New Rules for Revolutionaries: Reflections on the Democratic Theory of Economic System Change Marc Stears 12 Structural Justice and the Infrastructure of Inclusion K. Sabeel Rahman 13 Governing Money Democratically: Rechartering the Federal Reserve Leah Downey 14 Polypolitanism: An Approach to Immigration Policy to Support a Just Political Economy Danielle Allen Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
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.