TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This paper documents the case of La Verde, a producer cooperative in Andalusia, Southern Spain, whose members grow and sell organic fruit and vegetables. Fieldwork data reveal a range of assessments and practices with respect to just price. Historical experiences of working as day laborers, with little access to cash or other resources informs the members’ radical political views on money, prices, and markets. These ideas modulate exchanges at the local level, and in their political networks. However, working their own land and selling a prized product allows them to generate good market returns from private shopkeepers in cities. The paper proposes that for a price to be considered just, criteria for commensuration, or equivalence between a price and the perceived value of an object must adhere, but adjudications about this vary according to the relationship between exchangers. Rather than an objective just price, the paper considers assessments and judgments about the relation between prices and justice to be contextually defined, contested, and negotiated.
VL  - 39
SN  - 978-1-78743-573-5, 978-1-78743-574-2/0190-1281
DO  - 10.1108/S0190-128120190000039005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120190000039005
AU  - Luetchford Peter
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - What’s in a Just Price? Challenging Values at an Organic Cooperative in Southern Spain
T2  - The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price
T3  - Research in Economic Anthropology
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 91
EP  - 112
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -