Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-2020
Publication Title
Working Alternatives: American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy
Abstract
This essay explores the care economy, defined as activity oriented toward sustaining life and promoting basic well-being, whether that activity is paid or unpaid. The essay finds parallels between Pope Benedict XI’s concerns about neoclassical economics as expressed in Caritas in Veritate and feminist scholarship addressing the care economy. Both Benedict and feminist economists challenge sharp binaries between the market and the state and affirm a spectrum of motives driving economic activity. Both Benedict and feminist economists critique an individualistic, voluntaristic anthropology of self-interest, and both understand true economic development to promote the holistic well-being of all persons. However, Benedict does not draw on scholarship about development and the care economy. Progress toward the vision of development outlined in CV requires consideration of this economy and acceptance of a more complex and pluralist account of the social organization of caregiving than Benedict envisions.
Publisher Name
Fordham University Press
Pages
21-44
Identifier
ISBN-13: 9780823288359
Recommended Citation
Sullivan-Dunbar, Sandra. The Care Economy as Alternative Economy. Working Alternatives: American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy, , : 21-44, 2020. Retrieved from Loyola eCommons, Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works, http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288359.001.0001
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Author Posting © Fordham University Press, 2020. This article is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Working Alternatives: American and Catholic Experiments in Work and Economy, January 2020, https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288359.001.0001