Contextualizing the Current Crisis: Post-fordism, Neoliberal Restructuring, and Financialization

Tauss, Aaron

doi:10.7440/colombiaint76.2012.03

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“…The conditions of the international order competitive in nature, a driving factor for the state to maximize its achievements. Even so, the state tends to heed the benefits obtained in this cooperation but still tries to get absolute benefits (Castañeda & Shemesh, 2020;Tauss, 2012;Wills, 2014).…”

Section: Figures 1 Expected Decline In Global Merchandize Trade In Apmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Trade in the Covid-19 Outbreak: Is the Digital Economy Working?

Lestari¹,

Darma²,

Amalia³

et al. 2020

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This paper presents the strengthening of the digital economy which acts as a stabilizer in the trade sector during the Covid-19 outbreak. In a contactless world, most interactions between customers and employees must occur virtually. While still making exceptions to some things, operating digitally is the only way to survive restrictions on activities by the government, including in the economic sector. The instructions for switching in a digitizing pattern are nothing new, they are simply brought into sharp focus. The most recent event, the Covid-19 outbreak, has accelerated a transformation, as evidenced by the sharp strengthening in the digitizing economic sector. Based on a literature study, the conclusions explain the opportunities for the digital economy to support the trade sector which experienced inconsistencies in growth tabulations during this outbreak. Through the perspective of neoliberalism, it can be used to explain how it is related to strengthening the digital economy with the stability of international trade at macro and micro levels.

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Section: Figures 1 Expected Decline In Global Merchandize Trade In Apmentioning

confidence: 99%

International Trade in the Covid-19 Outbreak: Is the Digital Economy Working?

Lestari¹,

Darma²,

Amalia³

et al. 2020

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“…Increasingly, not only the wage systems but also the ownership structures of organizations are examined as engines of inequality through the rise of shareholder primacy (Blair, 1996;Stout, 2002), the financialization of the corporation (Davis & Kim, 2015), financial reshaping of patterns of accumulation (Krippner, 2005), and global capital mobility that distributes returns away from workers (Tauss, 2012). These trends in organizational governance contribute to widening inequality.…”

Section: The Wealthy Inequality and Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For our study, the detection of problematic causes or harmful outcomes of inequality by potential wealthy activists is itself an object of inquiry about inequality, not an aspect of our definition of inequality. Second, while we use a definition anchored in a national economy, in our case the United States, we recognize that researchers increasingly track global sources of concentrated wealth (Tauss, 2012) and that postcolonial theory urges recognition that extreme gains in wealth derive from historic transnational inequities (Prasad, 2012).…”

Section: The Wealthy Inequality and Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobilizing the Wealthy: Doing “Privilege Work” and Challenging the Roots of Inequality

et al. 2017

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Wealthy individuals stand to gain materially from economic inequality and, moreover, have shaped many organizational and societal practices that perpetuate economic inequality. Thus, they are unlikely allies in the effort to remedy economic inequality. In this article, however, we study the mobilization of a small group of wealthy activists who join underprivileged allies to expose and contest the root causes of wealth consolidation; they offer an instructive alternative to “philanthrocapitalism,” whereby the wealthy give after extreme accumulation. Our study contributes to the growing literature on inequality and organizations by recognizing how inequality is reproduced through organizations, cognizant that efforts to halt this reproduction will likely be contested by the wealthy. Our study examines how advocacy by the wealthy may be challenging, but it may garner attention because it is unexpected. We derive the concept of “privilege work” from our observations of an often awkward and fraught process that enables the wealthy to engage with their own privilege, use their insider knowledge of wealth accumulation as a lever for change, and work respectfully with underprivileged allies rather than invoking superior status.

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“…Fresh perspective is needed precisely at a time when the idea of individual accountability is gaining global traction. Individual accountability is a fundamental tenet of neoliberal capitalism and its inancial institutions, which are only geting stronger [59].…”

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The Pediatric Obesity Epidemic and the Role of the Corporation: Why Work Conditions and Faith in Meritocracy Matter

Scully¹,

Denis²

2017

Adiposity - Omics and Molecular Understanding

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The global pediatric obesity epidemic is a "grand challenge" that will reduce quality of life and strain healthcare delivery systems for many years. The root causes and treatments of pediatric obesity are medical and social, requiring cross-disciplinary collaboration. Research on pediatric obesity spans medicine, molecular biology, public health, and sociology and involves hospitals, clinics, community partners, and schools. However, litle atention has been given to how corporations play a role in this nexus of institutions. We make the case for understanding the role of the corporation, beyond that of producer and distributor of unhealthy foods. Speciically, we consider two factors. First, we examine the work conditions that corporations create for parents and how these afect family lifestyle, diferentially by socioeconomic status SES . Second, we expose how the "merican tendency to "individualize" social problems is reinforced in the corporation. Faith in meritocracy directs atention to individual efort rather than structural constraints. Treating pediatric obesity as remediable by meritorious individual behaviors might obscure root causes and promising approaches based on new medical research.

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Contextualizing the Current Crisis: Post-fordism, Neoliberal Restructuring, and Financialization

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

International Trade in the Covid-19 Outbreak: Is the Digital Economy Working?

International Trade in the Covid-19 Outbreak: Is the Digital Economy Working?

Mobilizing the Wealthy: Doing “Privilege Work” and Challenging the Roots of Inequality

The Pediatric Obesity Epidemic and the Role of the Corporation: Why Work Conditions and Faith in Meritocracy Matter

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