scholarly journals Reimagining the Oikos

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture ◽  
Zachary De Jong
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
New Form ◽  
Corporate Hegemony ◽  
Market Economics

We are currently living through a time in which the line dividing capital and state has dissolved behind repair, where free-market economics and rules of governance have become nothing more than a totality of bio-political control for capitalist and subjective fixes, and, where the distinctions between corporate hegemony, policy making, free-speech and mainstream media have become seemingly non-existent. This text attempts to act as a remedy to this by examining and analyzing some of the key tenets of what must be done in order to create a post-capitalist society, and move towards a reimagined oikos and oikonomia. It focuses largely on the necessity of moving away from subjectivity-centered thought, and towards a new form of materialist universality.

Colombatto, E., 2011, Markets, Morals and Policy–Making. A new defence of free–market economics

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-189
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Eusepi
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Economics

Abstract Colombatto, E., 2011, Markets, Morals and Policy-Making. A new defence of free-market economics, Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy, pp. x-285, $ 140.00, ISBN: 113666808X; ISBN 13:9781136668081.

scholarly journals Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
CHRISTINA M. KINANE
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Presidential Appointments ◽  
Capacity To Act ◽  
First Mover Advantage ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Legislative Approval

Scholarship on separation of powers assumes executives are constrained by legislative approval when placing agents in top policy-making positions. But presidents frequently fill vacancies in agency leadership with unconfirmed, temporary officials or leave them empty entirely. I develop a novel dataset of vacancies across 15 executive departments from 1977 to 2016 and reevaluate the conventional perspective that appointment power operates only through formal channels. I argue that presidents’ nomination strategies include leaving positions empty and making interim appointments, and this choice reflects presidents’ priorities and the character of vacant positions. The evidence indicates that interim appointees are more likely when positions have a substantial capacity to act on presidential expansion priorities and suggest that presidents can capitalize on their first-mover advantage to evade Senate confirmation. The results further suggest that separation of powers models may need to consider how deliberate inaction and sidestepping of formal powers influence political control and policy-making strategies.

scholarly journals Winning Ideas: Lessons from Free Market Economics

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Alkire ◽  
Angus Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Market Economics

scholarly journals Political control and policy-making uncertainty in executive orders: the implementation of environmental justice policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Provost ◽  
Brian J. Gerber
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Political Control ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Executive Orders ◽  
Fire Alarm ◽  
Bureaucratic Responsiveness ◽  
The Impact

AbstractEnvironmental justice (EJ) has represented an important equity challenge in policymaking for decades. President Clinton’s executive order (EO) 12898 in 1994 represented a significant federal action, requiring agencies to account for EJ issues in new rulemakings. We examine the impact of EO 12898 within the larger question of how EO are implemented in complex policymaking. We argue that presidential preferences will affect bureaucratic responsiveness and fire alarm oversight. However, EJ policy complexity produces uncertainty leading to bureaucratic risk aversion, constraining presidential efforts to steer policy. We utilise an original data set of nearly 2,000 final federal agency rules citing EO 12898 and find significant variation in its utilisation across administrations. Uncertainty over the nature of the order has an important influence on bureaucratic responsiveness. Our findings are instructive for the twin influences of political control and policy-making uncertainty and raise useful questions for future EJ and policy implementation research.

Introduction: a new apology for the builder

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Conor Lucey
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Free Market ◽  
British Atlantic ◽  
Extended Analysis ◽  
Building Community ◽  
British Atlantic World ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
New Literature ◽  
Market Economics

Borrowing its title from the notorious seventeenth-century speculative builder Nicholas Barbon’s seminal work on free market economics, published in 1685, the introduction offers a new apology for a much-maligned member of the architectural community: the building artisan. Taking the form of a discursive chapter in its own right, it weaves together a critical literature review with an extended analysis of the artisan’s place within architectural, design and cultural histories. Topics include the adverse effect of eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticisms of the building community on modern scholarship, distinctions between intellectual and manual labour in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the systemic problems arising from a new literature devoted to British Atlantic world studies.

Welfare and Punishment in a ‘Stark Utopia’ (1979–2015)

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Human History ◽  
Global System ◽  
System A ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Stage Development ◽  
Post War ◽  
Market Economics

Polanyi (1957) described the notion of a self-regulating global system a “stark Utopia.” This chapter uses this as a starting point to examine the broad themes in the development of welfare and penal policy in a period dominated by free market economics Fukuyama (1992) presents the triumph of free market economics as an inevitable conclusion of trends in human history. It is also presented as the final stage development has ceased or is complete. Polanyi’s analysis is presented a counterpoint to this analysis. Polanyi asserts the primacy of politics. Thus, it is impossible to separate economic and political development. Prosperity of the post war period can thus be viewed as a direct result of the advances in politics and civil society that occurred in the period.

scholarly journals POPULAR MAGAZINES, NEW LIBERAL DISCOURSE AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, 1890s–1914

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Matthew Schneirov
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Corporate Capitalism ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Mass Circulation

The study of the mass circulation “popular magazine” during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era was revived during the 1990s as part of the emerging fields of gender studies, consumer studies, and the study of the new middle class. Richard Ohmann's seminal work viewed these magazines through the lens of the political economy and class relations of an emerging corporate capitalist society and explored the relationship between mass culture and the political economy of capitalism. This paper reexamines the connection between a national mass culture, the new middle class, and an emerging corporate capitalist society through the lens of post-structuralist discourse theory. Corporate capitalism is conceptualized as in part a discourse, the new liberalism, which incorporated or rearticulated populist and socialist discourses and in doing so temporarily won the consent of the capitalist class, middle classes, and segments of the working class. Through the pages of popular magazines readers were offered pieces of a new discourse that embraced corporations rather than the “free market,” women's entry into public life, and new constructions of the self. During the muckraking era, elements of socialism and populism were integrated into mainstream American culture. Overall, the essay argues that a discourse perspective on popular magazines can open up new perspectives on corporate capitalism and the new liberalism. While corporate capitalism marked the decline of the producer–republican tradition, it also marked the emergence of an American social democratic tradition, a mixture of capitalist and socialist social formations.

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