Economy and Morals. Normativity and Economic Practices in a long 20th century: Knowledge, Objects, Agency

经济与道德。

基本信息

批准号：
406936980
负责人：
Dr. Benjamin Möckel
金额：
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依托单位：
Abteilung Neuere Geschichte
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Scientific Networks
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/406936980?language=en
关键词：
Economy Morals.Normativity Economic Practices

项目摘要

Economy and morality are often perceived as separate spheres or antipodes. The network wants to put into question this opposition. We interpret economic interaction as a form of social action that is intimately connected to changing social and moral norms. We do not understand morals and morality in a normative way. Instead, we propose to analyze the concept of morality from a historical perspective, and to apply it to the analysis of economic systems, discourses and practices. Our topics of research range from critiques of capitalism and alternative modes of consumption to praises of the free market. They include theoretical discourses as well as everyday interactions and embodied practices. The adjective "moral" is therefore not identical with "good". Instead, it refers to competing and historically dynamic arrangements of normative regimes that constitute the economy as a sphere of social interaction. The research agenda of the network contributes to three current and emerging fields: First, we contribute to the integration of social and cultural history, an aspiration that has often been called for, but so far has rarely been translated into empirical research. Secondly, we offer an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the research on business ethics of the last two decades. Thirdly, by using economy as its focal point, the network contributes to new research on the history of morality in the modern age. It will thereby contribute to the newly emerging field of moral history. In its conceptual approach, the network focuses on three central categories: "knowledge", "objects" and "agency". It aims at compiling an anthology of historical sources which reflect the multiple links between morality and economy in the long 20th century, adopting a transnational and European perspective. The anthology will analyze the changing characters and functions of economic morals up until today. Our central working hypothesis is that moral arguments are progressively interpreted within a global context. They tend to transcend local, regional and national frameworks, or may even refer to future generations. At the same time, this transposition of moral arguments into a transnational and global context brings about new moral conflicts, for example when debates about the welfare state or social inequality gain new currency on a national level and are explicitly framed in an anti-global rhetoric. We contend that these developments need to be investigated in a long-term historical perspective. The participants of the network will therefore analyze the contentious spatial, social and temporal extensions of economic morals from the late 19th century into the present.

经济和道德常常被视为不同的领域或对立面。该网络希望对这种反对提出质疑。我们将经济互动解释为一种与不断变化的社会和道德规范密切相关的社会行为形式。我们不以规范的方式理解道德和道德。相反，我们建议从历史的角度来分析道德概念，并将其应用于对经济制度、话语和实践的分析。我们的研究主题范围从对资本主义和替代消费模式的批评到对自由市场的赞扬。它们包括理论话语以及日常互动和具体实践。因此，形容词“道德”与“良好”并不相同。相反，它指的是规范制度的竞争性和历史动态安排，这些制度将经济构成社会互动的领域。该网络的研究议程致力于三个当前和新兴领域：首先，我们致力于社会和文化历史的整合，这是一个经常被呼吁的愿望，但迄今为止很少转化为实证研究。其次，我们为过去二十年的商业道德研究做出了创新和跨学科的贡献。第三，网络以经济为着眼点，为近代道德史的新研究做出了贡献。因此，它将为新兴的道德史领域作出贡献。在其概念方法中，该网络侧重于三个中心类别：“知识”、“对象”和“代理”。它旨在以跨国和欧洲的视角，编撰一部历史资料选集，反映漫长的20世纪道德与经济之间的多重联系。本书将分析迄今为止经济道德的特征和功能的变化。我们的核心工作假设是，道德争论在全球背景下逐渐得到解释。它们往往超越地方、区域和国家框架，甚至可能涉及后代。与此同时，这种将道德争论转移到跨国和全球背景下带来了新的道德冲突，例如，当有关福利国家或社会不平等的辩论在国家层面上获得新的流行，并明确地以反全球言论为框架时。我们认为，这些发展需要从长期的历史角度进行研究。因此，该网络的参与者将分析从 19 世纪末至今经济道德在空间、社会和时间上的争议性延伸。