A Political Economy of Justice

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.

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