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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Conclusion: Markets going nuts?
Author : Dorothee Niebuhr
Published in: Making Global Value Chains
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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Certainly, it is legitimate to ask what practical insights and recommendations for action research into the making of GVCs provides. Inspired by Yarrow’s ethnography on development politics in Ghana, I reframe a provocative question he poses in the beginning of his book (Yarrow 2011: Preface x) and apply it to my research project: Why (only) philosophize about marketization when urgent problems, such as persistent poverty, require concrete action? My answer to this question is that describing and enacting are two related spheres. This claim is highly consequential: Only through detailed descriptions of and investigations into the emergence of market orders and rationales can a broader understanding of ongoing marketization be achieved.