The Politics of Economic Life

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-91555-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckstein, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Politicization of Economic Activity 2. Towards a Micro-Political Approach to Economic Life 3. The Marketplace as a Site of Politics 4. Work and the World of Micropolitics 5. Shopping for Change? 6. Political (By-)Products of Economic Production 7. Entrepreneurial Space Production 8. Faraway, So Close

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Beckstein is Postdoctoral Assistant for Political Theory at the University of Zurich.