Dr Jason Edwards writes on openDemocracy
Economic justice requires more independence, not less
A republican economy should aim at maximising the genuine independence of economic actors. Only then can corruption be tackled at the root.
In part this essay is a response to Stuart White’s call in his introduction to the Democratic Wealth series to challenge the relevance of republican ideas for thinking about how to build a citizens’ economy. I will first point to a significant potential weakness in contemporary republican political theory. There is a danger in the republican view of non-domination, namely the failure to recognise in relation to a republican economic order that it is necessarily an order of power.
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