A Political Economy of Justice

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

Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University and teaches the Reimagining Capitalism course at Harvard Business School. She is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is a member of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Henderson is an advisor to some of the world's leading companies and a board member of Amgen and IDEXX Laboratories. The Financial Times recently named her a 'director of the year.'

Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, where she is also the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project. She was a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship in 2001 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. In 2020, she won the Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, administered by the Library of Congress, that recognizes work in disciplines not covered by the Nobel Prizes. She is the author or coeditor of many books, including Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality.

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.

Leah Downey is a PhD candidate in government at Harvard University and a visiting academic at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute.

Josh Simons is a research fellow in political theory at Harvard University. He has worked as a visiting research scientist in artificial intelligence at Facebook and as a policy advisor for the Labour Party in the UK Parliament.