Special Collection: Morality and Political Economy

Guest Editors:

Patrick Doyle, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Ireland
Sean Irving, The School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

The decade and a half since the Great Recession has seen a resurgence of interest in the concept of the moral economy across the humanities and social sciences. This special collection, Morality and Political Economy, is an intervention in this vibrant and diverse field, one that aims to provide two substantive contributions to it: First, it presents a series of articles by leading academics in their fields who apply a moral economy lens to their respective case studies. These individual pieces highlight how an analysis of the moral and ethical imperatives that underpin political economy can illuminate the dynamics of economic life in new and surprising ways. Taken together, the articles demonstrate the continued relevance of the moral economy as a way to understand the past, present, and possible futures. Second, the editors hope this collection can stimulate a conversation around the ways in which an interrogation of the moral dimension to economic discourse can be used to make sense of the contemporary ‘polycrisis’, while revealing the often-hidden values embedded within economic rationality.

To learn more about the collection, please read this introduction Moral Economy in a Time of Polycrisis by Patrick Doyle and Sean Irving.