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Rumours of a Moral Economy

Author : Christopher Lind
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1552663736

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Since the beginning of capitalism--with its mathematical equations and laws of supply and demand--its champions have claimed that studying the moral aspects of the theory interfere with its natural function. Yet, as this ethicist and theologian argues, economies are always deeply integrated in social relationships, in morality, and in ethics. Using historical examples, the book argues that when economically hard-pressed people come together to defend their common rights, they are giving voice to the principle of a moral economy that does not cheat the lower classes. Particular attention is paid to the 18th-century English food riots, the spontaneous resistance of 20th-century Malaysian farmers, and the North Americans who picketed the homes of Wall Street bankers in 2008 and 2009.

The Idea of a Moral Economy

Author : Lawrin Armstrong
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442643222

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The Idea of a Moral Economy by Lawrin Armstrong Pdf

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by the theologian Gerard of Siena. The questions represent the most influential late medieval formulation of the natural law argument against usury and the illicit acquisition of property. Together they offer a particularly clear example of scholastic ideas about the nature and purpose of economic activity and the medieval concept of a moral economy. In his introduction, editor Lawrin Armstrong discusses Gerard's arguments and considers their significance both within the context of scholastic philosophy and law and as a critique of contemporary mainstream economics. His analysis demonstrates how Gerard's work is not only a valuable source for understanding economic thought in pre-modern Europe, but also a fertile resource for scholars of law, economics, and philosophy in medieval Europe and beyond.

The Moral Economy

Author : Samuel Bowles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300221084

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The Moral Economy by Samuel Bowles Pdf

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.

Moral Economy at Work

Author : Lale Yalçın-Heckmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800732353

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Moral Economy at Work by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann Pdf

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often produce more consent than resistance or outrage.

The Moral Economy of Activation

Author : Hansen, Magnus
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447349983

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The Moral Economy of Activation by Hansen, Magnus Pdf

Activation policies which promote and enforce labour market participation continue to proliferate in Europe and constitute the reform blueprint from centre-left to centre-right, as well as for most international organizations. Through an in-depth study of four major reforms in Denmark and France, this book maps how co-existing ideas are mobilised to justify, criticise and reach activation compromises and how their morality sediments into the instruments governing the unemployed. By rethinking the role of ideas and morality in policy changes, this book illustrates how the moral economy of activation leads to a permanent behaviourist testing of the unemployed in public debate as well as in local jobcentres.

The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims

Author : Bruce J. Berman,André Laliberté,Stephen J. Larin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774833172

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The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims by Bruce J. Berman,André Laliberté,Stephen J. Larin Pdf

Bringing together international experts on ethnicity and nationalism, this book argues that competing moral economies play an important role in ethnic and nationalist conflict. Its authors investigate how the beliefs and practices that normatively regulate and legitimize the distribution of wealth, power, and status in a society – moral economies – are being challenged in identity-based communities in ways that precipitate or exacerbate conflicts. The combination of theoretical chapters and case studies ranging from Africa and Asia to North America provides compelling evidence for the value of moral economy analysis in understanding problems associated with ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict.

The Moral Economy of Welfare States

Author : Steffen Mau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134370559

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The Moral Economy of Welfare States by Steffen Mau Pdf

This book investigates why people are willing to support an institutional arrangement that realises large-scale redistribution of wealth between social groups of society. Steffen Mau introduces the concept of 'the moral economy' to show that acceptance of welfare exchanges rests on moral assumptions and ideas of social justice people adhere to. Analysing both the institution of welfare and the public attitudes towards such schemes, the book demonstrates that people are neither selfish nor altruistic; rather they tend to reason reciprocally.

The Moral Economy

Author : Laurence Fontaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107018815

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The Moral Economy by Laurence Fontaine Pdf

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State around the ban on usury, and analyzes the institutions created to eradicate usury and the informal petty financial economy that developed as a result. Laurence Fontaine unpacks the values that structured these lending practices, namely, the two competing cultures of credit that coexisted, fought, and sometimes merged: the vibrant aristocratic culture and the capitalistic merchant culture. More broadly, Fontaine shows how economic trust between individuals was constructed in the early modern world. By creating a dialogue between past and present, and contrasting their definitions of poverty, the role of the market, and the mechanisms of microcredit, Fontaine draws attention to the necessity of recognizing the different values that coexist in diverse political economies.

The Moral Economy of the Countryside

Author : Rosamond Faith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108487320

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The Moral Economy of the Countryside by Rosamond Faith Pdf

Shows the 'moral economy' of early medieval England transformed by 'feudal thinking' in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.

The Moral Economists

Author : Tim Rogan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691191492

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A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted in utilitarian terms, the critique of capitalism in the twenty-first century is primarily concerned with disparities in income and wealth. It was not always so. The Moral Economists reconstructs another critical tradition, developed across the twentieth century in Britain, in which material deprivation was less important than moral or spiritual desolation. Tim Rogan focuses on three of the twentieth century’s most influential critics of capitalism—R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, and E. P. Thompson. Making arguments about the relationships between economics and ethics in modernity, their works commanded wide readerships, shaped research agendas, and influenced public opinion. Rejecting the social philosophy of laissez-faire but fearing authoritarianism, these writers sought out forms of social solidarity closer than individualism admitted but freer than collectivism allowed. They discovered such solidarities while teaching economics, history, and literature to workers in the north of England and elsewhere. They wrote histories of capitalism to make these solidarities articulate. They used makeshift languages of “tradition” and “custom” to describe them until Thompson patented the idea of the “moral economy.” Their program began as a way of theorizing everything economics left out, but in challenging utilitarian orthodoxy in economics from the outside, they anticipated the work of later innovators inside economics. Examining the moral cornerstones of a twentieth-century critique of capitalism, The Moral Economists explains why this critique fell into disuse, and how it might be reformulated for the twenty-first century.

The Moral Economy of Class

Author : Stefan Svallfors
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804752850

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A comparative study of political attitudes across social classes, examining what accounts for such differences in opinion and determining whether these differences change over time

A/moral Economics

Author : Claudia C. Klaver
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814209440

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A/Moral Economics is an interdisciplinary historical study that examines the ways which social "science" of economics emerged through the discourse of the literary, namely the dominant moral and fictional narrative genres of early and mid-Victorian England. In particular, this book argues that the classical economic theory of early-nineteenth-century England gained its broad cultural authority not directly, through the well- known texts of such canonical economic theorists as David Ricardo, but indirectly through the narratives constructed by Ricardo's popularizers John Ramsey McCulloch and Harriet Martineau. By reexamining the rhetorical and institutional contexts of classical political economy in the nineteenth century, A/Moral Economics repositions the popular writings of both supporters and detractors of political economy as central to early political economists' bids for a cultural voice. The now marginalized economic writings of McCulloch, Martineau, Henry Mayhew, and John Ruskin, as well as the texts of Charles Dickens and J. S. Mill, must be read as constituting in part the entities they have been read as merely criticizing. It is this repressed moral logic that resurfaces in a range of textual contradictions--not only in the writings of Ricardo's supporters, but, ironically, in those of his critics as well.

Moral Markets

Author : Paul J. Zak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400837366

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Moral Markets by Paul J. Zak Pdf

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Drawing on converging evidence from neuroscience, social science, biology, law, and philosophy, Moral Markets makes the case that modern market exchange works only because most people, most of the time, act virtuously. Competition and greed are certainly part of economics, but Moral Markets shows how the rules of market exchange have evolved to promote moral behavior and how exchange itself may make us more virtuous. Examining the biological basis of economic morality, tracing the connections between morality and markets, and exploring the profound implications of both, Moral Markets provides a surprising and fundamentally new view of economics--one that also reconnects the field to Adam Smith's position that morality has a biological basis. Moral Markets, the result of an extensive collaboration between leading social and natural scientists, includes contributions by neuroeconomist Paul Zak; economists Robert H. Frank, Herbert Gintis, Vernon Smith (winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics), and Bart Wilson; law professors Oliver Goodenough, Erin O'Hara, and Lynn Stout; philosophers William Casebeer and Robert Solomon; primatologists Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal; biologists Carl Bergstrom, Ben Kerr, and Peter Richerson; anthropologists Robert Boyd and Michael Lachmann; political scientists Elinor Ostrom and David Schwab; management professor Rakesh Khurana; computational science and informatics doctoral candidate Erik Kimbrough; and business writer Charles Handy.

Why Do Elections Matter in Africa?

Author : Nic Cheeseman,Gabrielle Lynch,Justin Willis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108417235

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Why Do Elections Matter in Africa? by Nic Cheeseman,Gabrielle Lynch,Justin Willis Pdf

A radical new approach to understanding Africa's elections: explaining why politicians, bureaucrats and voters so frequently break electoral rules.

Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud

Author : David Whyte,Jörg Wiegratz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317397496

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Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud by David Whyte,Jörg Wiegratz Pdf

There is evidence that economic fraud has, in recent years, become routine activity in the economies of both high- and low-income countries. Many business sectors in today's global economy are rife with economic crime. Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows how neoliberal policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices have engendered a type of sociocultural change across the globe which is facilitating widespread fraud. This book investigates the moral worlds of fraud in different social and geographical settings, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the outcome of just a few ‘bad apples’. Authors from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology and political science, social policy and economics, employ case studies from the Global North and Global South to explore how particular values, morals and standards of behaviour rendered dominant by neoliberalism are encouraging the proliferation of fraud. This book will be indispensable for those who are interested in political economy, development studies, economics, anthropology, sociology and criminology.