RT Article
T1 Billionaires in world politics: clarifications and refinements
JF Journal of global ethics
VO 18
IS 2
SP 234
OP 247
A1 Hägel, Peter
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1824115482
AB This is a response to the comments by Filipe Campello, Julian Culp, Klaus Dingwerth and Julian Eckl, Indira Latorre, and Uchenna Okeja within the present book symposium discussing my book Billionaires in World Politics. While disagreeing with some critiques, I welcome most of the comments as invitations for theoretical refinement and further research. I start with questions about conceptual delineations and the structural background, arguing that ‘political modernity’ is a concept that is too broad to capture the specific context that allows billionaires to exercise power on the world stage. Then I address questions of agency, which are about the relationships between individual billionaires and collective actors, and the associated issue of legitimacy. The connection between billionaires and their corporations receives special attention, and is discussed in relation to legal innovations that establish individual accountability. I end with thoughts about neo-feudalism, a concept that I reject, because the political agency of billionaires remains wedded to capitalism.
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Corporations
K1 billionaires
K1 Agency
K1 Accountability
DO 10.1080/17449626.2022.2100453