Rethinking Economics: Bernard Harcourt

source: Center for Contemporary Critical Thought    2014年12月9日
In his 1973 lectures at the Collège de France, La Société punitive, Michel Foucault grafted a genealogy of morals onto the political economy of a disciplinary society. That is precisely what needs to be done in order to fully understand American punitive practices in our neoliberal era.

Capitalism, Progressivism, and Mass Incarceration by Bernard Harcourt

source: Brown University    2015年11月25日
November 3rd, 2015, Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School) and Naomi Murakawa (Princeton) present rival narratives about mass incarceration in America. In The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order , Harcourt shows the interdependence of contract enforcements in global markets and punitive authority. In The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, by contrast, Murakawa traces prison growth to liberal campaigns and progressive legislation. Together, Murakawa and Harcourt offer fresh ideas about into the political, economic and ethical dimensions of mass incarceration.