Mastodawn

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.

Thinking Prospectus

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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

Valdeloire Apr 5

У демократії легітимність ...
Дені Подалідес

En démocratie, la légitimité ...
Denis Podalydès
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/bevakaninu

#демократія #політика #легітимність #лідерство #держава
#democracy #politics #legitimacy #leadership #state

Richard Michael Blaber Mar 25

https://theconversation.com/donald-trumps-new-15-point-plan-is-the-biggest-sign-yet-that-washington-fears-it-is-losing-this-war-279001; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/joe-kent-resigns-director-national-counterterrorism-center. "The most immediate problem is lack of #legitimacy. This #war has authorisation from neither the #UnitedNations or, in the case of #America, the #USCongress. Further, #US #intelligence #assessments indicate #Iran was not rebuilding its #nuclear programme following earlier strikes - contradicting one of Washington’s justifications for war."

Donald Trump’s ‘new’ 15-point plan is the biggest sign yet that Washington fears it is losing this war

Donald Trump’s revival of a ‘roadmap’ to peace dismissed by Iran in 2025 suggests he is looking for a way out of an increasingly unwinnable war.

The Conversation

BellingenNSW Mar 16

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
"Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords."

"On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of dukes, earls and viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament along with their aristocratic titles."
https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4
#aristocracy #nobility #privilege #democracy #legitimacy #parliament #British #monarchy

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years

Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords. Late Tuesday the Lords dropped objections to a bill passed by the House of Commons that removes dozens of dukes, earls, and others who inherited seats in the unelected upper chamber. The chamber currently has more than 800 members. The vast majority are now “life peers” appointed by the government, but roughly 1 in 10 members are currently hereditary peers. A previous Labour government removed most hereditary peers in 1999 but left 92 in place. The rest will leave at the end of the current session of Parliament in the spring.

AP News

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Ton Lansink Mar 15

9/11
#8 Legitimacy deficit. Occupying powers lose when they offer no acceptable political alternative to the regime they fight. Betts (1995), Nagl (2002). Most underrated factor in the literature on Iraq and Afghanistan.
#Legitimacy #StateBuilding #Iraq #Afghanistan #Occupation

BellingenNSW Mar 11

A ‘just’ war?
‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal

"The Iran war reveals a dangerous shift in the way states justify their actions: a growing preference for moral storytelling over legal reasoning."

"Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain the powerful states from dominating the weaker ones."

"The purpose of international law is not to determine who is morally good; it is to maintain order in a world where every state believes it is waging the “good” fight." >>
https://theconversation.com/were-the-good-guys-why-moral-storytelling-doesnt-make-the-war-on-iran-necessary-or-legal-277952
#war #legitimacy #narratives #RuleOfLaw #Australia #law

‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal

Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.

The Conversation

Hacker News Mar 9

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

#HackerNews #legal #legitimacy #AI #copyleft #open-source #technology

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…

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