Corporate power and billionaire agency in world politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12893279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uchenna Okeja (0000-0002-6910-0232, Rhodes University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-233 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9626 • E-ISSN: 1744-9634 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449626.2022.2087723 |
| OpenAlex | W4312942931 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
In Billionaires in World Politics Peter Hägel considers how the experience of wealth accumulation shapes billionaires’ political agency. To understand the agentic power billionaires exercise in world politics, he proposes that we should examine (1) personality traits that dispose people to participate in politics and (2) connections between capacity and intentions. In this paper, I argue that Hägel’s account of billionaires’ agency in world politics depends on two assumptions. The first is an implied meaning of world politics and the second is the imagination that billionaires have equal access to social and cultural goods that guarantee meaningful engagement in world politics. I analyze these assumptions to argue that Hägel’s account of billionaire agency fails to take adequate notice of the dialectical relationship between corporate power and billionaire agency. A robust account of the agency of billionaires in world politics, I argue, must take this dialectical relationship as its foundation
Agency (philosophy · Dialectic · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |