Just Economics? Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability and Democratizing the Economy

1. Introduction: Just Economics? Corporate Power and the Contested Politics of Accountability Part 1: Corporate Resistance to Accountability and Economic Democratization 2. Big Business Associations and the Resistance to a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights 3. Public and Legal Corporate Defense when Accused of Complicity in War Crimes: The Lundin Oil Case 4. A Law and Political Economy Perspective on Corporate Power and Extractivism: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation 5. Corporate Power and the Limits of Political Consumerism: Avoiding Accountability, Resisting Economic Democracy Part 2: Toward Partial Compliance: When, How, and Why "Big Business" Engages with Corporate Accountability and Due Diligence 6. Forced Labor, Memory, and World War II Reparations in Contemporary East Asia: Settling Scores for Corporate Crimes 7. Multinational Corporations, History, Memory and Accountability: The Cases of Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen in Historical Perspective 8. The Transparency Paradox in Corporate Compliance with Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Laws: "To Disclose or not to Disclose, that is the Question" 9. Dutch Business Perspectives on Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: "Cowboy Companies and Companies that Give a Damn" 10. Corporate Strategies Within a Self-Regulatory Field: Playing the Game or Gaming the System? Part 3: Alternative Economic Models and Corporate Accountability 11. Alaska Native Corporations, Ecological Limits, and the Democratization of the Economy in Bristol Bay 12. Democratizing Digital Futures: Community-Led Initiatives as Models of Corporate Accountability in the Digital Economy 13. Agrarian Social Movements and the Challenge to Corporate Power in Food and Agriculture Systems in Southern Africa: Reclaiming Accountability and Building Alternatives 14. Pathways to Energy Democracy in Romania: Struggles of Prosumers and Energy Communities in a Centralized System