Etienne Toussaint on Justice and Community Economic Development

In this episode, Etienne C. Toussaint, Associate Professor of Law at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, discusses his article "Dismantling The Master’s House: Toward A Justice-Based Theory of Community Economic Development," which is published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Drawing on personal experience, Toussaint begins by describing the history of community economic development, and how typically employs place-based and person-based approached. He discusses new approaches to community economic development, including social impact bonds. And he argues that all of these approaches fail to develop communities, because they rely on neoclassical and neoliberal models of value, rather than justice and the values that inhere in communities themselves. Toussaint is on Twitter at @EtienneT_Esq.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye.

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