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Davies, William (2012) Ways of owning : towards an economic sociology of privatisation. Poetics, Vol.40 (No.2). pp. 167-184. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2012.02.008 ISSN 0304-422X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2012.02.008
Abstract
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 ‘social’ or the ‘public’ 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 ‘orders of appropriation’ 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 ‘ultimate’ basis on which to view ownership, according to different and incompatible philosophical anthropologies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Poetics | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science BV | ||||
ISSN: | 0304-422X | ||||
Official Date: | April 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.40 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 167-184 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.poetic.2012.02.008 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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