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The Politics of Economic Life

Beckstein, Martin (2015). The Politics of Economic Life. London/New York: Routledge.

Abstract

In recent years, economic life has become increasingly politicized: now, every company has a ‘philosophy’, promising its customers some ethical surplus in return for buying their products; consumers shop for change; workers engage in individualized forms of employee activism such as whistleblowing; and governments contribute to the re-configuration of the economic sphere as a site of political contestation by reminding corporate and private economic actors of their duty to ‘do their bit’. The Politics of Economic Life addresses this trend by exploring the ways in which practices of consumption, work, production, and entrepreneurship are imbued with political strategy and ideology, and assesses the potentials and perils of the politicization of economic activity for democracy in the 21st century.

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Item Type:Monograph
Communities & Collections:01 Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion > Center for Ethics
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Philosophy
Dewey Decimal Classification:170 Ethics
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Social Sciences
Language:English
Date:22 September 2015
Deposited On:08 Jul 2015 14:04
Last Modified:30 Jan 2022 08:16
Publisher:Routledge
Series Name:Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
Volume:63
Number of Pages:208
ISBN:978-1-13-891555-8
Funders:UZH Center for Ethics
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690155
Related URLs:http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138915558/ (Publisher)
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