Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: a roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster

Melissa Beresford; Andrew Sayer; Neville Kirk; Robert McMaster; Darren McGuire

doi:10.1177/0143831x241307419

Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: a roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster

Melissa Beresford, Andrew Sayer, Neville Kirk, Robert McMaster, Darren McGuire^*

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Over the past 20 years, a growing body of research revisited and revived the concept of moral economy, often associated with Edward Palmer Thompson and James C Scott. In this oral narrative article, and building from the editorial, we consider three different disciplinary voices in moral economy research. Dr Melissa Beresford (economic anthropology), Professor Andrew Sayer (political economy and social theory) and Professor Neville Kirk (social and labour history) were invited to answer the question: What for you, offers a valuable way of approaching moral economy?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-26
Number of pages	13
Journal	Economic and Industrial Democracy
Volume	46
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x241307419
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 9 Jan 2025

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The workshop was held in partnership with the Centre for the Political Economy for Labour at Strathclyde University, University of Otago, University of Wolverhampton and Brandenburg University of Technology. We extend our sincere thanks to Professor Bob McMaster, for chairing the roundtable discussion. Melissa Beresford\u2019s work is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Grant #BCS-2143766, \u2018Moral Economies in Water Markets: Implications for Understanding Human Responses to Water Insecurity\u2019.

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Beresford, M., Sayer, A., Kirk, N., McMaster, R., & McGuire, D. (2025). Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: a roundtable with Dr Melissa Beresford, Professor Andrew Sayer and Professor Neville Kirk, chaired by Professor Robert McMaster. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 46(1), 14-26. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x241307419

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