Chapter 1 Introduction; Dependence in Feminist Political Theory; 'Economy' in What Sense?; Market Dependence; On Looking from 'the Outside'; Meanings of 'Dependence'; Outline of the Book: Aims and Structure; Bibliography; Part I Who is Dependent?; Chapter 2 Economic Dependence and the Welfare State; Welfare Reform and the Rhetoric of 'Welfare Dependency'; Feminist Critiques of Patriarchal Capitalism; Feminist Lessons About Dependency: 'Interdependence' as a New Key Concept?; Building on Feminist Critique: Two Lines of Development
Conclusion: 'Welfare Dependency' RevisitedBibliography; Chapter 3 Unproductive People; Unproductive Labour: Background in Smith and Marx; Splitting Our View: The Logic of Bourgeois Political Economy, the Logic of Capital and the Logic of History; Productivity in the Abstract Under Capitalism; Productivity in Actual Economies; An Issue Left Unresolved: The Relation Between Unproductivity and Dependence; The View from the Kitchen: The Domestic Labour Debate; Structural and Practical Dependence Once More; Bibliography; Chapter 4 The Empty Economy
How Property Structures Social LifeProperty and Acquisition; Property as a Means of Coercion in a Market Economy; What Should Dependence Mean for Property Law?; Criticisms of the Legal Realist Approach to Property and Market Exchange; Is Dependence a Matter of Quantities or Qualities of Property?; Conclusion: The Rhythm of Justice; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Unearned Income and Inheritance; Social Parasites; Unearned Income as Wealth Extraction; Inheritance; Displacing Dependence: Time and Society; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Conclusion: Choosing Our Dependencies; Bibliography; Index
Street Papers: Experimenting at the Margins of Economic LegitimacyThe Public Identity of Street Papers; Is This Market Exchange?; Empty Labour in the Formal Economy; Karl Polanyi's View of the 'Human Economy'; Using Polanyi Today; References; Part II Instituting the Economy; Chapter 5 Currencies and Scales of Dependence; The Big Story About Money and Dependence; Small Stories About Currencies; The Politics of Money; Bitcoin; LETS; Money and Two Axes of Dependence; Scale and Authority: A Republican View of Money and Dependence; Bibliography; Chapter 6 How Property Structures Dependence
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"The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states. The simplistic contrast between markets and states as sources of income renders invisible the relations of dependence established in our basic economic institutions such as the family, property, and money. This book is a work of political theory that attacks narrow conceptions of dependence and identifies distinct senses of dependence that might allow political communities to make clearer decisions about the justice of our economic institutions and practices. Inheritance, for example, is as much a form of dependence as support by a welfare state, but these are never compared in debates about economic justice. This book begins the work of comparing forms of economic dependence, and argues that economic dependence is always an issue of both vulnerability and parasitism. It builds bridges between political theory and social science, and is of relevance to those concerned with social and economic justice in and beyond contemporary capitalist welfare states."--