Reflections
The Contested Moralities of Markets
ISBN: 978-1-78769-120-9, eISBN: 978-1-78769-119-3
Publication date: 2 September 2019
Abstract
This short text argues that a single moral – the notion’s etymology refers to the mores of a group or a society – must not be contested, but as soon as more than one morality is in play, there is a great chance that at least one or both are contested. It is also argued that man is moral by definition. Markets come, by definition, with struggles, but not all struggles in markets are moral. Most struggles in markets are economic, and most markets are not contested. Future research in the field of moral struggles could benefit from clearer distinctions of types of struggle.
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Citation
Aspers, P. (2019), "Reflections", Schiller-Merkens, S. and Balsiger, P. (Ed.) The Contested Moralities of Markets (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 63), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 205-209. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000063019
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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