Decency in Anglo-American Financial Centres
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3150436 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jocelyn Pixley (Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2010 |
| Volumen | 101 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 63-71 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010-05-01 |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513609360612 |
| OpenAlex | W2007680432 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 2 |
| Referencias citadas | 6 |
How can a partial, revisable utopia of 'decent society' be used as a yardstick for assessing today's impersonal forms of social integration? In economic life - this essay's focus - Polanyi's hopes that the 'economic system' might cease 'to lay down the law to society' is a start. Recently, financial firms sold commodified promises and obligations on the allure of democratizing credit and providing financial 'choice' to millions. Yet these 'civilities' exploited people's hopes for a dignified life. Any new, partial utopia (as Keynes's was too - to remove the egregious, humiliating features of 'the society in which we live') is yet to be devised. Maria Markus's concept is useful to ask whether the instrumental-ism of macro-economic concepts is a distortion of the institutions of money or intrinsic to them. Could solidaristic compromises through civil society minimize disrespectful relationships embedded in money to create decent institutions
Civil society · Commodification · Economics · Law and economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Utopia · Yardstick · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Intervalo de citas | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
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