fourcade and healy – moral views of market society
Brayden
Kieran links (at CT) to his forthcoming review article (coauthored with Marion Fourcade) in the Annual Review of Sociology, “Moral Views of Market Society.” Marion and Kieran build on Hirschman’s description of rival views of the market to create a neat typology of intellectual perspectives linking morality to economy. They argue that the typology doesn’t go far enough, and add a fourth body of thought that emphasizes the morally-embedded nature of markets. The fourth view explores how “markets are explicitly moral projects, saturated with normativity” (e.g. work by the likes of Zelizer, Mackenzie, Callon, and both Marion and Kieran). Thus, they do a nice job of demonstrating how current research fits in a historical perspective as well as accounting for the current trajectory of much economic sociological research. I definitely need to add this one to the syllabus for next semester’s markets and society course.
