Conference
Republican Critiques of the Economy
Event Summary
IMAGE: U.S. marshals attempt to start a train during the great Southwest railroad strike of 1886. Illustration by G. J. Nebinger. U.S. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons.
This conference brought together leading scholars who work at the intersection of political theory and political economy. Speakers investigated the potential and limits of neo-republican and radical republican critiques of the economy. Is republicanism committed to a specific economic vision? How does radical republicanism understand the pathologies and wrongs of capitalism? Which institutional prescriptions for reforming the economy do republican approaches suggest? How should the relation between republicanism and socialism be understood, both historically and normatively?
Sponsored by the Economic Planning and Democratic Politics project at the Neubauer Collegium.
SPEAKERS
Lilian Cicerchia (University of Amsterdam)
Alexander Gourevitch (Brown University)
Kate Petroff (University of Chicago)
Tony Smith (Iowa State University)