Business and Society

Kean Birch is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, Canada. He is also a member of the Science & Technology Studies Graduate Program. His work examines the intersection of technoscience and political economy. Salewa Olawaye-Mann is an Assistant Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on heterodox approaches to sustainable economic development through natural resources and monetary theory. She co-edited the book “Monetary Policy and Central Banking: New Directions in Post-Keynesian Theory” (2012). Richard Wellen is an Associate Professor of Business and Society in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. His research interests and publications are in the areas of business ethics, the regulation of digital industries and the political economy of higher education and academic publishing. Alberto Salazar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University, Canada. He specializes in corporate law including comparative corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and the new technology; consumer law; competition law; international investment and trade law; and socio-economic analysis of business law. Audrey Laurin-Lamothe is an Assistant Professor of Business and Society in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. Her research focuses on financialization, economic elite, and their impact on wage’s stagnation and economic inequalities. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is an Associate Professor of Global Development and Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. She is the author of Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power and Violence in the Black Americas (2016). Mark Peacock is Professor in the Business and Society program at York University, Canada. His research interests include the philosophy of economics and the theory and origins of money. His books include Introducing Money (2013) and Amartya Sen and Rational Choice: The Concept of Commitment (2021). Sonya Scott is a sessional Assistant Professor in the Business and Society program at York University, Canada. She is the author of Architectures of Economic Subjectivity: The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought (2013). John Simoulidis is an Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Business and Society Program in the Department of Social Science at York University. His research interests include critical pedagogy, food studies and Marxian Political Economy.

1. A critical introduction to business and society
Kean Birch, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe and Sonya Marie Scott

2. The emergence of capitalism in Western Europe
Mark Peacock

3. The spread of capitalism
Kean Birch and Caroline Shenaz Hossein

4. Markets and economic order
Mark Peacock

5. Economics, capitalism and business : the orthodoxy
Sonya Marie Scott and Mark Peacock

6. Political economy and critiques of capitalism : heterodox perspectives
Sonya Marie Scott

7. The corporate revolution
Kean Birch and John Simoulidis

8. Corporate governance
Alberto Salazar

9. Corporate responsibility
Kean Birch

10. Corporate power
Kean Birch

11. Corporations and financialization
Audrey Laurin-Lamothe and Richard Wellen

12. Corporations and market power in the 21st century
John Simoulidis

13. Global economy and varieties of capitalism
Kean Birch and Richard Wellen

14. Global governance
Kean Birch and Richard Wellen

15. Global migration and immigrant-led business
Salewa Olawoye-Mann

16. Global environmental change
Kean Birch

17. Global disorders and crises
Sonya Marie Scott

18. Business, regulation and policy
Richard Wellen and Alberto Salazar

19. Ethics and business
Mark Peacock, Richard Wellen and Kean Birch

20. Business and social exclusion
Caroline Shenaz Hossein

21. Resistance and alternatives to corporate capitalism
Kean Birch and John Simoulidis

22. Social and solidarity economy
Caroline Shenaz Hossein

23. From sharing economy to surveillance capitalism
Richard Wellen, Kean Birch, Salewa Olawoye-Mann

24. Conclusion
Richard Wellen and Sonya Marie Scott