Toward a predistributive democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23201500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret R Somers (0000-0003-4751-6808, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 56-87 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Condition of Democracy : Volume 1 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003158363-5 |
| OpenAlex | W3162017216 |
| ISBN | 9781003158363 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In an age of egregious inequality and authoritarian threats to democracy, many call for a ‘moral economy’. Yet inequality, economic domination, and dedemocratization do not signal the absence of morality; they are signature expressions of the dominant neoliberal moral economy of market justice – the claim that market outcomes are morally just because rooted in the unbiased naturalism of economic society. Polanyi demystified market justice to reveal its origins not in naturalism but in a market constituted by the power of predistributive political and legal engineering, the extraction of social wealth, and the enchainment of democracy. An alternative political economy of predistributive democracy aims to mobilize countervailing predistributive powers to decommodify and redemocratize.
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Economic Justice · Economics · Inequality · Law and economics · Moral economy · Morality · Naturalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |