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Routledge
384 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Nothing affects the modern economy (and society) more than decisions made in the market place, especially, but not only, decisions made by consumers. Although it is not startling to suggest that decisions made in production are affected by choices consumers make, consumers have long been viewed, not only by academic economists, as individual, isolated rational actors that make or refrain from... Read more
Preface -Nico Stehr Introduction -Nico Stehr, Christoph Henning and Bernd Weiler Part I: Foundations Introduction -Steve Fuller 1. Freedom without Responsibility: The Culture of the Market and the Demoralization of Social Life -Barry Smart 2. The Many Selves of Self-Interest: Some Historical Observations on Morals and Markets -Paul du Gay 3. Approaching Moral Economy -Andrew Sayer Part II: The Moralization of the Market in Theoretical Context Introduction -J. Rogers Hollingsworth 4. The Ambivalent Role of Morality on Markets -Jens Beckert 5. The Market: Source or Target of Morality? -Steve Fuller 6. Markets, Morality, and the Auto-corrosive Tendencies of Standard Economics -Lars Osberg Part III: Social Institutions Introduction -Steve Fuller 7. A Moral Conception of Commodification -Albert Borgmann 8. Considering Others and Satisfying the Self: The Moral and Ethical Dimension of Modern Consumption -Colin Campbell 9. Societal Transformation and Business Ethics: The Expansion of the Private Sector and its Consequences -Arnaud Sales and Thomas Beschorner Part IV: Case Studies Introduction: Moralization of the Markets in the Context of Globalization -J. Rogers Hollingsworth 10. Moralization of Product Markets: Genetically Modified Food and Tobacco Compared -Paulette Kurzer 11. Ethics in Global Garment Market Chains -Patrik Aspers 12. How Workers Respond to the New Corporate Norms -Steven Peter Vallas Contents Conclusion: Moral Ambiguity -Reiner Grundmann Contributors Name Index Subject Index
Biography
Christoph Henning
