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Rethinking Moral Economy

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ID3556411
AuthorsThomas Clay Arnold (0000-0002-2723-5796, Emporia State University, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume95
Issue1
Pages85-95
Publication date2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003055401000089
OpenAlexW2254980382
LanguageEN
Citations received69
References cited23

I establish three closely related claims. The first two are interpretive, the third theoretical. (1) The prevailing conception of moral economy in political science, presupposed by opponents as well as advocates, rests too heavily on the distinction between nonmarket and market-based societies. (2) The prevailing conception of moral economy reduces to the unduly narrow claim that economic incorporation of a nonmarket people is the basis for the moral indignation that leads to resistance and rebellion. (3) Reconceptualizing moral economy in terms of social goods reveals additional grounds for politically significant moral indignation and permits moral-economic political analysis of a larger set of cases and phenomena. Water politics in the arid American West illustrate the power of a conception of moral economy based on social goods

Economics · Environmental ethics · Factor market · Indignation · Market economy · Moral economy · Nonmarket forces · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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