Tag Archives: morality

The Making of Homo Financius and Neoliberal Morality

Posted on August 11, 2019 by Oleg Komlik

“There is [a] set of qualities ascribed to the actions and conduct of mankind, distinct from their propriety or impropriety, their decency or ungracefulness, and which are the objects of a distinct species of approbation and disapprobation. These are Merit … Continue reading →

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Being the 1%, or What It Means to Be Entitled

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

by Rachel Sherman* Most contemporary research on economic inequality focuses on the causes, contours, and consequences of unequal distributions of resources. But how they do such distributions become legitimate? Why do people accept them, and even take them for granted? Why … Continue reading →

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The Role of Money in Social Life: Morality and Power in the World of the Poor

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

by Ariel Wilkis* “Perhaps behind the coin is God.” — Jorge Luis Borges, The Zahir (1949) My book The Moral Power of Money: Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor (Stanford University Press, 2017) offers a new focus for … Continue reading →

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Markets, policy and sociology of economic immorality

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Oleg Komlik

In a highly influential book Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics, a distinguished Yale philosopher Seyla Benhabib argued that: “Moral judgment is what we ‘always already’ exercise in virtue of being immersed in a network of human … Continue reading →

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“The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics” by Gabriel Abend brings a novel conceptual depth to the important field of the sociology of morality

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

Investigate the history of business ethics in the United States from the 1850s to the 1930s, this fine book (open access to the introduction) examines the work of numerous business ethicists and organizations—such as Protestant ministers, business associations, journalists and … Continue reading →