On markets and morality
Revisiting Fred Hirsch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9255920 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luís Francisco Carvalho (0000-0002-2519-4396, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa), João Rodrigues (0000-0003-3711-7598, Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-348 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Social Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00346760600892758 |
| OpenAlex | W1994326617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article argues for the continuing relevance of Fred Hirsch's The Social Limits to Growth (1976), valued as a critical analysis of the consequences of markets on the moral fabric of society. Two concepts that are fundamental to Hirsch—the commercialization bias and the depleting moral legacy—will be scrutinised. We further claim that this book, by emphasizing the tendency to market expansion and the corresponding commodification of increasing spheres of social life, while simultaneously acknowledging its adverse consequences on the motivational appeal of social and moral norms, offers insights that justify revisiting it
Appeal · Commercialization · Commodification · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Morality · Political science · Positive economics · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
The International Baccalaureate and ‘growth scepticism’
The Economic Crisis of 2008 and Its Substantive Implications for Public Affairs
Necessary risk
The age of responsibilization
Onde para o mercado
(Re)defining outsourcing in education
The responsibilization of "development consumers" through cause-related marketing campaigns
Social Limits to Growth
Economics and Institutions
The Market
Against Parsimony
Social Limits to Growth
Psychological foundations of incentives
Breaking the mould
The Great Transformation
The Gift Relationship
Philosophy and Public Affairs
The Ethical Limitations of the Market
The Logic of Collective Action
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Modernity, postmodernity or capitalism
Capitalism and its future
Religion and the Market
The Globalisation of Positional Competition
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2021 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |