El agricultor moral. Instituciones, capital social y racionalidad en la agricultura espanola contemporanea

Jesus Martin and Pablo Leon

Revista Espanola de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, 2010, issue 225, 36

Abstract: Este articulo aborda la recepcion de la Nueva Economia Institucional en la historiografia espanola. A partir de un dialogo critico con la obra pionera de Juan Carmona y James Simpson, El Laverinto de la agricultura espanola (piblicada en 2003), sus autores reflecionan sobre los limites epistemologicos del proyecto neoinstitucionalista y proponen una mirada teorica alternative de las instituciones historicas que governaron la conducta de los agricultores desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX hasta ek primer tercio del XX. A diferencia de la interpretacion excesivamente instrumental de las instituciones y de la racionalidad de los agentes economicos, este texto plantea una teoria que considera las instituciones como conjuntos de convenciones comunitarias -de origen a menudo subintencional o supraintencional- que dotan a los actores de la identidad necesaria no solo para hacer calculos sobre la informacion que reciben sino tambien para evaluar dicha informacion. This paper deals with the reception of the New Institutional Economics in Spanish historiography. From a critical dialogue with the pioneering work by Juan Carmona and James Simpson, The Labyrinth of Spanish Agriculture (published in 2003), the authors reflect on the epistemolofical limits of neo-institutionalist project and propose a theoretical alternative approach to the historical institutions that governed farmers behavior since the mid-19th century until the first third of the 20th. Unlike the overly instrumental interpretation of the institutions and of the rationality of economic agents, in this paper institutions are considered as communitarian collections of procedures and norms -often sub-intentionally or super-intentional produced- that provide the social actor with the identity the individual needs no only to make calculations on the information he receives but also to evaluate this information.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Political Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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