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Event details of Reimagining Livelihoods: Trade, Distribution, Development and Facilitating Alternative Futures
Date
10 November 2022
Time
15:30 -17:00

If our aim is a more equitable distribution of power and resources globally, he argues that we need a much richer understanding of the complex of norms and institutional formations that underpin the allocations of power and resources within Supply Chain Capitalism. At the same time, it may be that a more informed and clear-eyed analysis of the challenges and possibilities for achieving sustainable and equitable growth through Supply Chain Capitalism may lead progressive trade and development theorists and policymakers to explore alternative approaches to development that do not hold out competitive participation in global markets as both a goal and a requirement for development. 

In the remainder of his talk, he will describe some very preliminary work in which he has been engaged with an interdisciplinary group of scholars called the Law and Regions Working Group to find new analytic frameworks and heuristics for breaking out of developmentalism while helping enable alternative plural futures to emerge and hopefully thrive.

Speaker

Professor Dan Danielsen’s research explores the complex place of the business firm in social, political and economic governance. He has written about corporate power, the transnational migration of domestic rules through business practice, the centrality of legal regimes and private ordering mechanisms in the creation, structure, geography, distributive effects and governance of Global Value Chains and other global production systems, and international law and economics theory and practice. With a better understanding of the workings of private power in the global governance regime, Professor Danielsen hopes to develop new and more complex notions of economic participation, political pluralism and distributive justice in global economic activity and more effective, participatory and accountable strategies for harnessing corporate power to enhance economic well-being and social welfare, particularly in the developing world. 

Prior to joining the faculty at Northeastern, Professor Danielsen was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Europe Online Networks S.A., a pioneer in the provision of broadband Internet and interactive multimedia services to consumers across Europe.  Previously, he was a partner at Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP in Boston where his practice focused on the representation of US and European public and privately held business with respect to corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, content and technology licensing and corporate strategy.