DISCUSSION FORUM Moral categories in the financial crisis

Karl Marx observed long ago that all economic struggles invite moral struggles, or masquerade as such. The reverse may be true, too: deep moral–political conflicts may be waged through the manipulation of economic resources and the design of policy devices. Using the recent financial and Eurozone crises as empirical back-grounds, the short papers presented here by Philippe Steiner, Cornelia Woll, Wolf-gang Streeck and Marion Fourcade propose four different perspectives on the play of moral judgments in the economy and call for a broader and more systematic scholarly engagement with this issue. Focusing on executive compensation, bank bailouts and the sovereign debt crisis, the discussion forum builds on a roundtable discussion held at the openingof the Max PlanckSciences Po CenteronCoping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo) in Paris on November 29, 2012