ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the interplay between the descriptive and prescriptive sides of the moral(ized) economy. This overlapping, it is argued, derives from the multiplicity of motives that drive social action at the borders of the social spheres we inhabit in a continuous and pre-reflexive way. The interplay between the moral economy and a moralized perspective on the economy is key in the provisioning of all commodities at all times where human well-being is deemed to be an intrinsically significant goal. While the moral economy is intertwined with a moralized economy, the chapter argues to escape a one-sided view of this connection, favoring instead the analysis of bricolage processes in concrete social settings. Accordingly, the chapter illustrates the analytical dimensions of interaction regimes, hybrid rules, assemblages of resources and practical problem-solving processes in five cases of core economic phenomena.
