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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

During his remarks, Powell referred to economics as “the science of public policy.” Like many others who challenge neoliberalism , Ostrom found academic success in the United States outside of economics—in her case, in political science. But this exclusionary perspective is precisely the problem.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

After all, if one has been unfairly terminated from a job, being reinstated due to a successful civil rights claim, while certainly still of value, is less valuable if the person, after being reinstated in the job, is likely to have to find another job within a few years. This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

Going even further back, in 1977, Charles Lindblom, onetime American Political Science Association president, authored Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems , in which he argued that in capitalism, business occupies a “privileged position” that offers business elites disproportionate policy influence.