Moral Economy of Corruption - Guanxi Networks in China's Courts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Li
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Guanxi Networks

scholarly journals The moral economy of guanxi and the market of corruption: Networks, brokers and corruption in China’s courts

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 634-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Li
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Operating Mechanism ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Exchange Relationship ◽  
Guanxi Networks

In this article, I offer an economic analysis of the characteristics that are associated with corruption when it is facilitated through social exchange or guanxi as it is called in China. To that end, I challenge the framework applied in classic social exchange theories and contend that social exchange can be better distinguished from market exchange based on whether the intention to exchange is concealed and not based on the exchanging parties’ subjective reflections on the nature and outlook of their exchange relationship. I also identify that corruption participants rely on a self-executable operating mechanism to facilitate negotiation and enforcement of exchange terms instead of the informal reputational system that is used in ordinary social exchange. In addition, I explain how the involvement of professional brokers democratizes guanxi-based corruption and extends the otherwise privileged exchange opportunities to those beyond the guanxi networks with lowered cost.

Moral economy and liberalism Russia

10.15535/138 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Blinov
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy

Thin Economics, Thick Moralising

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-43
Author(s):  
Roland Boer
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Uk

Locality, family, moral economy, virtuous elites, common popular customs – these are the buzzwords of what has come to be known as red toryism, which seeks to breath life into the conservative project in the UK. It valorises the local over the global, family over its discontents (gays, single parents, promiscuity), virtue over cynicism, common custom over bland commercial labels; in short, a return to the progressive, communal values of conservatism. The name most usually associated with red toryism – also known as communitarian civic conservatism – is Phillip Blond. Our brief in this paper is not a treatment of the whole red tory doctrine, but a critical examination of its economic policies and how they relate to theology, via morality.

When People Come First

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Health It ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
New Research ◽  
Health Enterprise ◽  
Conceptual Work

This book critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The chapters explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast. This book sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.

Money and Meaning: The Moral Economy of Law Firm Compensation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton C. Regan, Jr. ◽  
Lisa Haueisen Rohrer
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
Law Firm

The Land Question in India

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Land Acquisition ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Tribal Communities ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Acquisition Processes ◽  
Land Question

This book takes a fresh look at the land question in India. It goes beyond re-engagement in the rich transition debate by critically examining both theoretically and empirically the role of land in contemporary India. Springing from the political economy discourse surrounding the classic capitalist transition issue in agriculture in India, the book gravitates toward the development discourse that inevitably veers toward land and the role of the state in pushing a process of dispossession of peasants through direct expropriation for developmental purposes. Contemporary dispossession may look similar to the historical process of primitive accumulation that makes room for capitalist agriculture and expanded accumulation. But this volume shows that land in India is sought increasingly for non-agricultural purposes as well. These include risk mitigation by farmers, real estate development, infrastructure development by states often on behalf of business, and special economic zones. Tribal communities (advasis), who depend on land for their livelihoods and a moral economy that is independent of any price-driven markets, hold on to land for collective security. Thus land acquisition continues to be a turbulent arena in which classes, castes, and communities are in conflict with the state and capital, each jockeying to determine the terms and conditions of land transactions or their prevention, through both market and non-market mechanisms. The volume collectively addresses the role of the state involved in the process of dispossession of peasants and tribal communities. It provides new analytical insights into the land acquisition processes, their legal-institutional and ethical implications, and captures empirically the multifaceted regional diversity of the contestations surrounding the acquisition experiences in India.

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