Economic deviance (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate) |
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| Authors: | James G Carrier |
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| Institution: | Studied economic activity in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom. One of his current projects is a volume concerned with economic deviance. |
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| Abstract: | Making sense of what went wrong during the recent financial crises requires us to go beyond the conventional view of deviance. We need a more systematic and social view of financial deviance, and have long had the intellectual tools to do so. They include Durkheim and Merton's work, invoked here to pose pertinent questions about the deviant behaviour of corporations and institutions. |
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