Tobiska, Georgina. Thought and values for American political economy: toward a state of care and collaboration. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ee9z-2e10
DescriptionIdeas are the vehicle of real power: our choices of thinking, our beliefs and resulting ideologies,are where positive possible changes reside. Of ideas, our valuing of care for one and other, collaborative thinking, or “power to” thinking, fueling belief and action, are what sustain society. The experiential knowledge of women providing care work in particular, by our creating, nurturing and sustaining of persons, is immeasurably instructive to the importance of promulgating values overarching necessary policies and regulatory mechanisms within the United States political economy. Capitalism is a given in America, but to sustain free and fair markets within our democratic republic, state regulation of finance and economic structure are both necessary and justified by the values of care and collaboration as primary--valuing persons as persons, our interdependence, our entering and exiting the world dependent on care. Regulated capitalism has taken many forms over the international history of statecraft, and can be accomplished according to valuing care of persons in principle through policies. I explore and reveal how dysfunctions of now internationally hegemonic neoliberal thinking and the historicity of women’s care work illuminate guidance towards new visions of this thinking. I propose therefore care and collaboratory values as integral to the guided thinking for policies and regulations that will sustain, creating in fact a more fair, more free political economy.