Contents

Introduction 1

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 27

Yochai Benkler

2 Building a Good Jobs Economy 61

Dani Rodrik and Charles Sabel

3 The Political Philosophy of RadicalxChange 96

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4 On Flourishing: Political Economy and the Pursuit

of Well-Being in the Polity 118

Deva Woodly

5 Beyond the Perpetual Pursuit of Economic Growth 140 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 167 Tommie Shelby

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7 Firms, Morality, and the Search for a Better World 187 Rebecca Henderson

8 Corporate Purpose in a Post-Covid World 210 Malcolm S. Salter

9 Corporate Engagement in the Political Process and Democratic Ideals 237

F. Christopher Eaglin

10 The Just and Democratic Platform? Possibilities of Platform Cooperativism 263

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 293 Marc Stears

12 Structural Justice and the Infrastructure of Inclusion 313 K. Sabeel Rahman

13 Governing Money Democratically: Rechartering the Federal Reserve 340

Leah Downey

14 Polypolitanism: An Approach to Immigration Policy to Support a Just Political Economy 367

Danielle Allen

Acknowledgments 395

List of Contributors 397

Index 401