The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous
disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new
perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers,
employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are
interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual
autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or
creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often
produce more consent than resistance or outrage.