Author : Rosamond Faith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108487327
Shows the 'moral economy' of early medieval England transformed by 'feudal thinking' in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Author : Steffen Mau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134370555
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.
Author : Laurence Fontaine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107018811
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.
Author : Robert Paul Weller
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
"Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has taken through the past three centuries."--Pacific Affairs
Author : Stefan Svallfors
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804752855
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
Author : Rosamond Faith
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0718502043
This account of the changing relationship between lords and peasants in medieval England challenges many received ideas about the "origins of the manor", the status of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry, the 12th-century economy and the origins of villeinage. The author covers the period from the end of the Roman empire to the late-12th century, tracing in post-Conquest society the continuing influence of developments which originated in Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on work in archaeology and landscape studies, as well as on documentary sources, the book describes a fundamental division within the peasantry: that between the very dependent tenants and agricultural workers on the "inland" of the estates of ministers, kinds and lords, and the more independent peasantry of the "warland". The study leads to the expression of views on many aspects of the development of society in the period.
Author : Lale Yalçın-Heckmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 180073235X
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.
Author : Andrew Charlesworth
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333671849
This book developed from a conference held in 1992 to mark the 'coming of age' of E.P.Thompson's seminal concept of 'the moral economy'. The collection provides a critical evaluation of the original concept and of its application to a wide and diverse field of scholarship, drawing together specialists from social and labour history, legal history, social, anthropology and historical geography who examine the developing utilisation of the concept of 'the moral economy' in different historical and societal contexts.
Author : Paul Clough
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782382712
The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.
Author : Samuel Bowles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0300221088
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.
