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Synthesis: decoupling advances via loss of proximity, abolition of reciprocity, removal of voice. Re-embedding means designing institutions that restore all three — so accountability is structural, not optional.

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https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-economy-tradition-intellectual

#MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness
#PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign
#Accountability

The Moral Economy Tradition: Intellectual Genealogy, Structural Theory, and the Architecture of Embedded Responsibility

A Supplementary Essay to The Great Decoupling, A guided map of moral economy—Thompson, Polanyi, Scott, Granovetter & Akbar — showing how proximity, reciprocity, and voice sustain legitimacy.

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Pepperberry Apr 8

Key idea: markets always rely on norms and social mechanisms. Thompson shows crowd expectations; Polanyi shows why self-regulating markets destabilize social/ecological foundations and trigger countermovements.

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https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-economy-tradition-intellectual

#MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness
#PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign
#Accountability

The Moral Economy Tradition: Intellectual Genealogy, Structural Theory, and the Architecture of Embedded Responsibility

A Supplementary Essay to The Great Decoupling, A guided map of moral economy—Thompson, Polanyi, Scott, Granovetter & Akbar — showing how proximity, reciprocity, and voice sustain legitimacy.

Thinking Prospectus

Pepperberry Apr 8

New essay: “The Moral Economy Tradition.” Moral economy isn’t nostalgia — it’s a structural claim: systems stay legitimate when responsibility is embedded. We trace Thompson → Polanyi → Scott → Granovetter → Akbar, then offer a diagnostic for modern “decoupling.”

Read Essay:
https://thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-economy-tradition-intellectual

#MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign #Accountability