In this conversation, Chad Seales and Timothy Rainey address what role corporations should assume in achieving the public good. While…
Corporate missions: Commerce, freedom, and the public good
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Apocalypse when? Andean world-turnings in an era of neoliberalism, and after
Anthropologists Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Taylor C. Nelms set their discussion of neoliberalism and apocalypse in Ecuador during the turn of…
The market in the gift
What is charity today? How do new charitable initiatives recast the classic opposition between economies organized around markets and those…
Religious charity and the spirit of homo economicus
In this brief essay I connect Gates’s philosophy of giving—along with many other contemporary neoliberal philanthropists—to Protestant traditions and the…
Gospels of giving
Contributors to this forum consider why, when, and where certain understandings of charity and philanthropy have proven persuasive and powerful.
Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
Via Islamic finance, “rites” have increased their power over “rights” in Malaysia.
Islamic law from below: Between trust and distrust
Rumee Ahmed’s Sharia Compliant begins with a letter to his Muslim readers. The Arabic term for “letter” is risala, a…
Spiral glimpses
This anniversary forum invites us to think together about epochal entrance, temporal markings, defining frames, and what the forum’s curators…
Trumping reality
Why those who support Trump do so can be captured by perspectives on income, not income itself; by perspectives on…
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault: An introduction
Traditionally, Western thought framed human life as evolving in a three-dimensional space: the economic, the political, and the philosophical. Nowadays,…