Hijacked

Elizabeth Anderson

ISBN 10: 1009275437 / ISBN 13: 9781009275439

Edité par Cambridge University Pr. Sep 2023, 2023

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Neuware -This sweeping history of classical economics shows how the work ethic has been used both to oppress workers and to liberate them. Today's neoliberalism offers an oppressive version of the work ethic. However, the work ethic also offers resources for reorganizing the economy on behalf of ordinary people.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781009275439

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• Titre: Hijacked
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Pr. Sep 2023
• Date de parution: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1009275437
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781009275439
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 159 H x 32 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 159 millimètres de hauteur par 32 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 701 grammes

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Synopsis

What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers' dignity and standing? Hijacked explores how the history of political economy has been a contest between these two ideas about whom the work ethic is supposed to serve. Today's neoliberal ideology deploys the work ethic on behalf of the One Percent. However, workers and their advocates have long used the work ethic on behalf of ordinary people. By exposing the ideological roots of contemporary neoliberalism as a perversion of the seventeenth-century Protestant work ethic, Elizabeth Anderson shows how we can reclaim the original goals of the work ethic, and uplift ourselves again. Hijacked persuasively and powerfully demonstrates how ideas inspired by the work ethic informed debates among leading political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us today.

À propos de l?auteur

Elizabeth Anderson is the Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Public Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at University of Michigan. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (1995), The Imperative of Integration (2010), and Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) (2017). She is a MacArthur Fellow and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2019, The New Yorker described her as 'a champion of the view that equality and freedom are mutually dependent [...] Anderson may be the philosopher best suited to this awkward moment in American life.'