The moral economy of grades and standards

By Lawrence Busch. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems and Management, Strategy and Management

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Greener than Thou: The Political Economy of Fish Ecolabeling and Its Local Manifestations in South Africa (2008, background): “…examines the ethics and governance of standards, standards as a tool of governance, and the service industry of consultants, auditors and certifiers that has emerged around these standards (among others, see Busch, 2000; 2002; Hughes, 2006; Mutersbaugh, 2005b; Ponte & Gibbon, 2005; Taylor, 2005).”
Trojan Pig: Paradoxes of Food Safety Regulation (2003, background): “They do so because they are more than simple technical rules for organizing markets and ensuring product quality, but are complex technologies which attempt to regulate social and ethical behavior in capitalist markets (Busch, 2000).”
Fighting Standards with Standards: Harmonization, Rents, and Social Accountability in Certified Agrofood Networks (2005, background): “…in the writing of certification standards I seek to contribute to a productive tension between actornetwork and conventions theorists (for example, Busch, 2000; Callon, 1998; Goodman, 2004; Mansfield, 2003) and political economists (for example, Flynn et al, 2003; Freidberg, 2003a; Guthman, 2004;…”
Towards a theory of values-based labeling (2002, background): “, 2000), and particularly phenomena related to labeling and standards (Busch, 2000) have pointed to the usefulness of conventions theory (or as Busch has termed it, Convention Economics).”
The interpersonal world of direct marketing: Examining conventions of quality at UK farmers’ markets (2006, background): “…culturally, and geographically disembedded food production from its consumption, meaning that consumers have come to rely on ‘common definitions of quality’ (Murdoch and Miele, 1999, p. 468), or ‘uniform standards’, which have ‘supplant[ed] human judgement’ at a local level (Busch, 2000, p. 280).”
Regional foods and rural development: The role of product qualification (2007, background): “Whilst qualification processes have been theorised as representations of the shifting moral and ethical conventions of societies (Busch, 2000; Parrott et al., 2002), and as instruments constructed by powerful actors to be wielded in geopolitical negotiations (Moran, 1993; Barham, 2003), at the micro”
Environmental Certification of Forests in Mexico: The Political Ecology of a Nongovernmental Market Intervention (2006, background): “Conventions analysis helps break down the arbitrary divide between the analysis of economic versus social behavior; it helps make sense of the observation that grades, standards, and certification programs are part of the moral economy of the modern world (Busch 2000).”
Performing the economy, performing science: from neoclassical to supply chain models in the agrifood sector (2007, background): “…noted above, in recent years we have seen the dramatic rise of private-sector standards (regulations) that cover not only product quality but the production process (e.g. worker health and safety, environment, human rights) and management itself (e.g. ISO 9000) (Busch 2000; Busch and Tanaka 1996).”
Sustainable and responsible supply chain governance: challenges and opportunities (2015, background): “…2012; Stolle & Micheletti, 2013); studies of responsible and sustainable supply chain management (e.g. De Bakker & Nijhof, 2002; Seuring & Muller, 2008), as well as the studies of codes of conduct (e.g. Locke, 2013) and standards (e.g. Brunsson & Jacobsson, 2000; Busch, 2000; Ponte et al., 2011).”
Moral economies of food and geographies of responsibility (2009, background): “Towards a reflexive politics of localism Journal of Rural Studies 21 359–71 Freidberg S 2003 Editorial: not all sweetness and light: new cultural geographies of food Social and Cultural Geography 4 3–6 Freidberg S 2004 French beans and food scares: culture and commerce in an anxious age Oxford Unive”