Economy and SocietyPub Date : 2025-02-07eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2024.2439715
Apolline Taillandier, Neil Stephens, Samantha Vanderslott
{"title":"Effective altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value.","authors":"Apolline Taillandier, Neil Stephens, Samantha Vanderslott","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2439715","DOIUrl":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2439715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A recent philanthropic movement with advocates among high-profile tech entrepreneurs and philosophers, effective altruism (EA) has been widely disparaged for its flawed moral philosophy and conservative political implications. As philanthropic practice, however, it has been seldom studied. In this paper, we argue that claims to technoscientific expertise are central to how EA actors understand, legitimize, and take part in the production of philanthropic value. We analyze their practices of categorization, ranking and measurement as well as underlying technoscientific imaginaries and moral views through comparing three areas of EA intervention: neglected tropical diseases, cultured meat, and AI safety. We show how EA involves various and contested ambitions to direct knowledge production and redraw the boundaries of expert communities, shedding light on the centrality of technoscience in philanthropists' worldmaking ambitions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"54 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11912955/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stay home: Mapping the new domestic regime","authors":"William Davies, Sahil Jai Dutta, Nick Taylor","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2378632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2378632","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-pri...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142268628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under the finfluence: Financial influencers, economic meaning-making and the financialization of digital life","authors":"Adam S. Hayes, Ambreen T. Ben-Shmuel","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2381980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2381980","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the rise of financial influencers (‘finfluencers’) on social media and their impact on shaping financial subjectivities. Employing the dual theoretical frameworks of economy-as-...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142203745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shape-shifters, chameleons and recognitional politics: The asset management industry and financial regulation","authors":"Huw Macartney, Fabian Pape, Matthew Watson","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2367330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2367330","url":null,"abstract":"The asset management industry is becoming a systemic feature of global finance, yet has evaded regulators’ efforts to designate its largest firms as systemically important institutions. How has thi...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technically speaking: How the Gates Foundation governs ‘women’s health’ in India","authors":"Vyoma Dhar Sharma","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2368363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2368363","url":null,"abstract":"In global health, the ‘technical’ is viewed as scientifically and ethically superior due to the emphasis on quantitative methods, supported by international aid and philanthropy. This perceived obj...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiscal policy as credit policy: Homeownership subsidization and the household debt boom","authors":"Etienne Lepers","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2344354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2344354","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits the policy drivers of the substantial household credit boom experienced in recent decades. While existing work has typically pointed to the retreat of the state, deregulating an...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141149774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The American ‘doc fix’: Incremental policy change and the growth of US healthcare spending","authors":"Armando Lara-Millán, Emily H. Ruppel","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2336798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2336798","url":null,"abstract":"The extraordinary growth of healthcare spending in the United States necessitates an incremental model of institutional change. Efforts to reduce social spending in the 1980s introduced strict cost...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141149775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk, value, vitality: The moral economy of a global behavioural insurance platform","authors":"Jathan Sadowski, Kelly Lewis, Zofia Bednarz","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2328992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2328992","url":null,"abstract":"Imagine your insurer were an ‘active life partner’, even a guardian of your future, which engaged with you on a regular basis, through a complex system of digital technology and behavioural science...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140592251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waiting and the gendered boundaries of work among India's poor","authors":"Lucy Dubochet","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2315725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2315725","url":null,"abstract":"Poor people in India routinely have to wait for short-term employment, basic services and subsidized goods. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, this paper describes how this waiting blends into an environ...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140073176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liberal fatalism, COVID 19 and the politics of impossibility","authors":"Jana Bacevic, Linsey McGoey","doi":"10.1080/03085147.2024.2312710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2312710","url":null,"abstract":"How liberal governments manage knowledge, ignorance, prediction and uncertainty has attracted increased attention across the social sciences. In this paper, we analyse the strategy and rhetoric of ...","PeriodicalId":48030,"journal":{"name":"Economy and Society","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}