'The good economy': a conceptual and empirical move for investigating how economies and versions of the good are entangled
'The good economy': a conceptual and empirical move for investigating how economies and versions of the good are entangled
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DOI：
10.1057/s41292-021-00245-5
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发表时间：
2021-09-20
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1.6
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Maloy, Tommas
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作者：
Asdal, Kristin;Cointe, Beatrice;Maloy, Tommas
在整个欧洲和经合组织，生物经济被推广为将取代碳经济的经济：一个基于“生物”的经济，将是创新的，可持续的，负责任的和环境友好的。然而，如何批判性地看待一个不仅以其积累的潜力，而且以其做好事的能力为依据的经济？本文提出了“好的经济”的概念，作为一种分析工具，调查经济实践是如何纠缠在好的版本。在韦伯、汤普森和福柯的经典贡献的基础上，结合价值评估研究，本文展示了如何使用良好经济概念来考察经济和良好是如何交织在一起的。从经验上讲，这篇论文梳理了生物经济中的好东西是如何与最近的经济体完全不同的。虽然早期石油和水产养殖经济的“良好经济”关注如何以良好的方式将这种经济融入社会，但令人惊讶的是，社会在当代生物经济中却缺席。生物经济被制定为一个专家问题，由经济评估工具追求，并基于毫无疑问的想法，即“生物”使任何经济都好。
Across Europe and the OECD, the bioeconomy is promoted as that which will succeed the carbon economy: an economy based in 'the bio' that will be innovative, sustainable, responsible and environmentally friendly. Yet how to critically approach an economy justified not only by its accumulative potentials but also its ability to do and be good? This paper suggests the concept of 'the good economy' as an analytical tool for investigating how economic practice is entangled in versions of the good. Building upon the classic contributions of Weber, Thompson and Foucault in combination with valuation studies, this paper shows how the good economy concept can be employed to examine how the economic and the good are intertwined. Empirically, the paper teases out how what is made to be good in the bioeconomy is radically different than in economies of the recent past. While 'the good economy' of the early oil and aquaculture economy concerned how to insert this economy into society in a good manner, society is surprisingly absent in the contemporary bioeconomy. The bioeconomy is enacted as an expert issue, pursued by the tools of economic valuation, and based in the unquestioned idea that 'the bio' makes any economy good.