Description
Since the publication of Quentin Skinner (1997) and Philip Pettit’s (1999) groundbreaking analyses of the republican tradition and the notion of freedom as non-domination associated with it, political theorists and philosophers have applied the “neo-republican” lens to a wide variety of political issues. One domain where the implications of neo-republicanism are particularly contested is political economy. While some neo-republicans posit that republicans should simply want a familiar type of competitive market economy supplemented by a universal basic income (Pettit 2006, Lovett 2009), many others have argued that the implications of republican values may well be more radical. To truly realize freedom as non-domination, they have argued, we may need a property-owning democracy (Thomas 2017), an economy of worker cooperatives (Gourevitch 2014), or even some form of socialism (O’Shea 2020, Muldoon 2022). In addition to these big-picture questions about economic systems, however, neo-republican theory has much to offer for the normative analysis of more particular economic phenomena, such as work, debt, housing, financialization, trade, and many others. This panel will serve as a venue for republican theorists to further interrogate the implications of republican values for normative political economy.Wednesday 2 September
11:30–13:00
Registration
12:30–14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Session 1
Tom Ladendorf — “Blind Power”: Marx on Capital, Accumulation, and Unfreedom
Kate Petroff — Freedom and Politics in Marx’s Vision of Socialism
16:00–16:30
Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
16:30–17:30
Session 1 (continued)
Alan Coffee — Wollstonecraftian Political Economy
17:45–19:00
Wine Reception
19:30
Conference Dinner
Thursday 3 September
09:30–11:30
Session 2
Miikka Jaarte — What’s So Special about the Working Class?
Stuart White — A Republican Internationalist Argument for Degrowth
11:30–12:00
Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
12:00–13:00
Session 2 (continued)
Paul Forester — What Is Free Labor? Dependence without Domination
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Session 3
Alan Thomas — Should Liberal-Republicans Be Keynesians?
16:00–16:30
Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
16:30–17:30
Session 3 (continued)
No speaker
Friday 4 September
09:30–11:30
Session 4
Paul Pumsenberger — Democratic Precarity: Why Republicans Should Care about an Expansive Notion of Precarious Work
Sean Irving — Monetary Domination and Republican Political Economy
11:30–12:00
Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
12:00–13:00
Session 4 (continued)
No speaker
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–16:00
Session 5
Tejas Luthra — Global Production and Non-Domination: Why Republicans Should Be Cosmopolitan against Corporate Power
Hannah McHugh & James Hickson — Republican Internationalism Reconsidered: Citizenship and Solidarity in an Era of Domination across Borders
16:00–16:30
Tea and Coffee Break (optional)
16:30–17:30
Session 5 (continued)
Jenna Zhang — Economic Domination, Productive Freedom, and the “Duty to Share”: A Republican Theory of the Essential Facilities Doctrine in Antitrust
17:30
End of Conference
| Period | 2 Sept 2026 → 4 Sept 2026 |
|---|---|
| Event title | MANCEPT Workshops 2026 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Manchester, United KingdomShow on map |