Just Economics? Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability and Democratizing the Economy (Routledge Studies in Human Rights)

This edited volume offers the first critical perspective on how different business entities -from multinational corporations, to cooperatives, social enterprises, community wealth-building projects, activist hedge funds and Indigenous companies - envisage corporate accountability for human and ecological rights and how this connects to ideas and processes of democratizing the economy. Taking an actor-focused approach and collecting interdisciplinary case studies of different industries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America since 1945, the book examines a wide range of business reactions to social and judicial critiques, as well as its attempts to weaken international and national accountability processes or foster progressive frameworks of social equality and human and environmental rights.It therefore challenges the idea of neoliberal hegemony as a stable condition and emphasizes the diversity and fragmentation of business responses to corporate accountability and the w