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Figart, Deborah M.

Stories of progressive institutional changechallenges to the neoliberal economy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Stories of progressive institutional changeby Deborah M. Figart.
Reminder of title:	challenges to the neoliberal economy /
Author:	Figart, Deborah M.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xiii, 136 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	EconomicsSociological aspects.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59779-9
ISBN:	9783319597799$q(electronic bk.)

Stories of progressive institutional changechallenges to the neoliberal economy /
Figart, Deborah M.

Stories of progressive institutional changechallenges to the neoliberal economy /[electronic resource] :by Deborah M. Figart. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xiii, 136 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction to Institutions, Institutional Change, and the Stories -- 2. Accounting for Household Production: Toward an Improved Measure of Macroeconomic Well-Being -- 3. Funding Infrastructure and Local Economic Development: A Public Bank Option -- 4. Contesting the Gig Economy: #SchedulesThatWork -- 5. Delving into the Food Supply Chain: The Case of Fresh Tomatoes -- 6. Doing Business Responsibly: ROC United and Restaurant Workers -- 7. Swimming in Debt: Student Loans and the Fight to Save a Generation -- 8. Transforming Legal Rights and Social Values: Marriage Redefined -- 9. Greening the Economy: Certified Sustainable Coffee.

This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending discrimination, protecting the environment, improving worker well-being, and reimagining ways to encourage local economic development by restoring public-private social balance. Ultimately, these stories demonstrate that challenges to the neoliberal economy are possible. Neoliberalism can be viewed as a value structure that is undermining sustainable human development by elevating the level of risk experienced in daily economic life. Its hallmarks are globalization, market liberalization, deregulation, financialization, cutbacks in social provisioning through the public sector, and restructuring of labor markets in ways that increase instability. Social movements have responded, agitating for change. The stories here provide examples of how social actors engage in collective behavior to advance the objectives of economic justice, democratic participation in economic life, and human development.

ISBN: 9783319597799$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-59779-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

184869
Economics
--Sociological aspects.

LC Class. No.: HB99.5 / .F54 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 330.1552

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