Perspectives on Moral Economy

Post conference news

The conference was very successfully. We are now considering publication possibilities - either an edited collection or a special issue of a journal. In the meantime, if delegates would like to send me revised papers for uploading, please send them to: andrew.sayer@lancaster.ac.uk

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Conference Abstracts

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Plenary Speakers:

Robert Boyer- Ecole des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and CEPREMAP, Paris, France.

Contemporary CEOs Remuneration: Efficiency, Equity or Polity?

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Sylvia Walby- Leeds University.

What Is Progress: Economic Performance, Well-being or Equality?

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Erik Olin Wright- University of Wisconsin.

Taking the 'Social' in Socialism Seriously

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Conference Speakers:

Christian Arnsperger- Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

What's Really Political About Political Economy?: Probing The Cognitive Prospects Of A "People's Economics" Download full paper

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John Bake- University College Dublin, Ireland.

What is Economic (In)Equality? Download full paper

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Mark Banks- Manchester Metropolitan University.

Ethics in Unexpected Places? Work and Morality in the Cultural Industries

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Jack Barbalet- University of Leicester.

Globalization vs Cosmopolitanism in the Development of Economic Science and its Critique

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Albino Barrera- Providence College, USA.

The Convergence of Equity and Efficiency in the Knowledge Economy

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José Castro Caldas, Helena Lopes and Fátima Sulema- ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal.

The Moral Nature of the Firm Download full paper.

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James Carrier

Making Rough Places Plane: Moralities And Economies In Environmental Conservation In Jamaica. Download full paper.

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Ryan Conlon- Lancaster University.

Lawrence Lessig and the Moral Economy of Intellectual Property

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Ana Cristina Costa and João Rodrigues- ISCTE Lisbon, Portugal.

The Commodification-Commensurability Nexus and Institutions

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Michael Dietrich and Donna Rowen- University of Sheffield.

Ethical principles and economic analysis

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Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams

The Romance of High Income and Wealth

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David Evans- Cardiff University.

Theorising the moral/economy: bringing the market back to morality Download full paper

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Norman Fairclough- Lancaster University.

Analyzing values in texts: the contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis to researching moral economies Download full paper

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Ralph Fevr- Cardiff University.

The Power of Nightmares: Phantom Job Insecurity and Demoralization Download Powerpoint presentation

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Steve Fleetwood- Lancaster University.

Why Should The Consumer Be Sovereign? Rescuing The Producer From Subjection Download full paper

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Alex Gallas- Lancaster University.

The Three Sources of Anti-Socialism: An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of F.A. Hayek's Politics

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Tomohisa Hattori- City University of New York, USA.

The Moral Regulation of States: the Constitution of Postcolonial States as Juridical Persons in the Capitalist States System Download full paper

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Juha Hiedenpää- University of Tampere, Finland.

Reasonableness of Biodiversity Policy: The Natural Values Trading in Satakunta, SW Finland

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Marc Humber- University of Rennes 1, France.

Economic Activities Based On Non-Utilitarian Or Liberal Norms: A Few Theoretical And Empirical Cases

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Benedikt Korf- University of Liverpool.

Moral economies of the post-tsunami aid in South Asia

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Heonik Kwo- University of Edinburgh.

Death and Moral Economy

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Kathleen Lynch- University College Dublin, Ireland.

The Formal Economy and the Affective Domain: Is there an end to commodification? Download full paper.

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Tony Lynch and Adrian Wals- University of New England, Australia.

Moral Economy, Moral Purposes and the Pursuit of Profit Download full paper.

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Fergus Lyon and Gina Porter- Middlesex University Business School and University of Durham.

Evolving Institutions of Trust: Personalised and Institutional Bases of Trust in Nigerian and Ghanian Food Trading Download full paper.

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Wendy Olsen- University of Manchester.

Moral Political Economy and Poverty: Four Theoretical Schools Compared Download full paper

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John O'Neill- IEPPP, Lancaster University.

Public Choice and Institutional Character

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John Owen- University of New England, Australia.

The Moral Economy as a Radical Proposal

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Heikki Patomaki- University of Helsinki.

Economic value, commodification and the concept of GDP: A reconstructive critique

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Michael Samer- University of Nottingham and Jane Pollard- Univesity of Newcastle.

The moral dilemmas of 'actually existing Islamic banking and finance' in 'western' countries

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Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva- Kent University.

Moral struggles in a post-socialist society: Kyrgyzstanis' reflections on the market transition.

Download full paper :- Theorising moral economy in the post-soviet space: some issues of professional practices and ethics in Kyrgyzstan.

Download full paper :- Normativity and professionalism in post-socialist societies: understanding professional practices in Kyrgyzstan

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Ngai-Ling Sum- Lancaster University.

Putting Ethics into Economics: Cultural Political Economy of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Euclid Tsakalatos- Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.

General Equilibrium Theory, Competitive Equilibrium and the Social Ethos: understanding the inegalitarian dynamics of liberal market economies. For full paper click here.

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John Vail- University of Newcastle.

Decommodification and Egalitarian Political Economy

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Ann Vogel- University of Exeter.

The Moral Economy of Philanthropy

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Janette Webb and Jonathan Hearn- University of Edinburgh.

Capitalist Organisations, Identity And Moral Economy Download full paper

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Sally Wheeler- Law School, Queens Belfast.

Work and the Theory of the Firm

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David Zetland- University of California, Davis, USA.

Moral Conflict And The Force Of Law: The Continuing Relevance Of Bernard Mandeville