Ways of owning: Towards an economic sociology of privatisation
- 作者：William Davies williamdavies10@gmail.com William.davies@kellogg.ox.ac.uk ; [Author Vitae]
- 刊名：Poetics
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：104_0304422x
- 类别：cp
- 出版时间：April, 2012
- 卷：40
- 期：2
- 页码：167-184
- 文件大小：350 K
摘要
Economic sociology has been preoccupied with the institution of markets, to the relative neglect of ownership. It has inherited certain technical and governmental problematics regarding that which can or cannot be internalised within the market price system, leading to the assumption that the 鈥榮ocial鈥?or the 鈥榩ublic鈥?is a type of empirical externality. But by shifting attention towards institutions of ownership, the public and the private come to appear as primarily normative appeals, used to challenge and justify the drawing of boundaries in economic life. Boundaries are judged for their justice, as well as for their empirical efficacy. Adopting a pragmatist approach, this paper outlines three possible 鈥榦rders of appropriation鈥?which can be appealed to when justifying and criticising privatisation in economic situations: the socialist, the neoliberal and the liberal. Beyond any scientific or technical account of property, each of these offers an 鈥榰ltimate鈥?basis on which to view ownership, according to different and incompatible philosophical anthropologies.