Moral Economies, Economic Moralities

University of California - Berkeley

U.S.A.

June 24 - 26, 2016

With Islamic mortgages to avoid haram interest payments, museums that avoid calculating replacement costs of human remains, and in a host of empirical situations, we see different methods of calculation being viewed as moral or immoral, sometimes with competing systems of calculation or valuation being put forward, other times quantification itself is opposed, with factors including religious faith and moral sentiment. We also find quantification techniques being used to demonstrate the morality or decency of certain practices.