An edition of The moral economy (1998)

The moral economy

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An edition of The moral economy (1998)

The moral economy

"In the moral economy, John P.Powelson argues that laws do no more than consolidate what a society has realized culturally. No major historic reform has lasted more than a few decades unless consensus on it had been achieved. Instead, reform arises our of the many positive-sum potentials in the world social order, which intelligent people will find so long as no one can stop them. As citizens defy central authority to seek mutual goals at grassroots levels, moral economic behavior becomes grounded in a balance of power among social groupings and spreads upward. Organized into groups, people hold each other accountable for their contracts instead of depending on a groverment of international agency to impose morality upon them." -- From publisher's description.

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Language
English
Pages
282

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The moral economy
1998, University of Michigan Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330/.01
Library of Congress
HB72 .P65 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 282 p. ;
Number of pages
282

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL348925M
Internet Archive
moraleconomy00powe
ISBN 10
0472109251
LCCN
98008146
OCLC/WorldCat
98008146, 39130764
LibraryThing
2124356
Goodreads
4043753

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1829939W

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