Moral Political Economy and Poverty: Four Theoretical Schools Compared

Wendy Olsen and University of Manchester

No GPRG-WPS-031, Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores a pluralist approach to moral economy. Firstly, four schools of thought on the rental of land in India are described. The normatic and ontic assumptions of each school are described. Then I look closely at a debate between two feminist authors, Agarwal and Jackson. The advantage of the social researcher doing a meta-review of normatic positions in this instance is that we can compare and contrast meta-criteria for improvements and progress. Five moral reasoning strategies for meta-normative economic research are described and discussed. These suggest a need for more research on complex moral reasoning strategies.

Keywords: Tenancy; Pluralism; Schools of Thought; Moral Economy; Feminist Economics; Norms; Moral Reasoning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 O12 O17 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-11-01
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