Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: finding Customs in Common?

Andrew Perchard; Darren McGuire; Knut  Laaser; Keith Gildart; Anya Kaufman; Robert McMaster; Ben Curtis

doi:10.1177/0143831X241307418

Moral economy at the crossroads of history and social science: finding Customs in Common?

Andrew Perchard, Darren McGuire^*, Knut Laaser , Keith Gildart, Anya Kaufman, Robert McMaster, Ben Curtis

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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
Number of pages	11
Journal	Economic and Industrial Democracy
Early online date	19 Jan 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X241307418
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 19 Jan 2025

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We acknowledge the generous support of Society for the Study of Labour History and thank Dr Daniel Laqua for supporting PhD scholar attendance at the workshop. We are also grateful for the University of Strathclyde grant and to the Centre for the Political Economy of Labour (see: https://www.politicaleconomyoflabour.org/), who kindly hosted the workshop informing the special issue.

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