Café Économique: Re-interpreting social costs and social infrastructure on the basis of the ethic of care.
March 3, 2020 @ 19:30 - 21:30
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A Talk by Dr Stefan Kesting, Leeds University Business School.
The aim of Dr Kesting’s talk is to change the popular view of child care as a private matter (maternalism) or as a service delivered commercially through “free” markets (neo-liberalism) by the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) industry
He will attempt a re-categorisation of ECEC as part of public social infrastructure and argue that ECEC is better provided by the state.
The ethic of care and the economics of social provisioning are essential for this re-categorisation because they provide alternative ontological foundations based on social emotional bonds to the autonomous, self-interested, utilitarian, methodological individualism supporting “free” market provision of ECEC featured by mainstream economists.