ABSTRACT

My responses to the contributors’ chapters are prefaced by acknowledgements of my intellectual, institutional and personal debts, plus a brief explanation of how I came to adopt a ‘post-disciplinary’ approach to social science. Inevitably my comments on the contributions say more about disagreements than agreements, but in both cases, I attempt to point to wider implications of their points. The responses are grouped into six themes: space, theory and economic development; critical realism; ethical life, habitus and naturalism; moral economy; inequality and the rich; and environment.