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Moral Categories in the Financial Crisis

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  • Marion Fourcade

    (UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley] - UC - University of California)

  • Philippe Steiner

    (GEMAS - Groupe d'étude des méthodes de l'analyse sociologique - UP4 - Université Paris-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Wolfgang Streeck

    (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

  • Cornelia Woll

    (CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Karl Marx observed long ago that all economic struggles invite moral struggles, or masquerade as such. The reverse may be true as well: deep moral-political conflicts may be waged through the manipulation of economic resources. Using the recent financial and Eurozone crises as empirical backgrounds, the four papers gathered here propose four different perspectives on the play of moral judgments in the economy, and call for broader and more systematic scholarly engagement with this issue. Focusing on executive compensation, bank bailouts, and the sovereign debt crisis, the symposium builds on a roundtable discussion held at the opening of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) in Paris on November 29, 2012.

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  • Marion Fourcade & Philippe Steiner & Wolfgang Streeck & Cornelia Woll, 2013. "Moral Categories in the Financial Crisis," Working Papers hal-02393514, HAL.
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