The moral economy of global priorities fusing profit and public duty in malnutrition governance

The moral economy of global priorities fusing profit and public duty in malnutrition governance

This article examines a shift in the discourses through which attention to problems is justified in global governance. Whereas appeals to the public good and private gain were once invoked as distinct and often conflicting grounds for collective action, contemporary governance discourses increasingly bring them into alignment. Grasping this shift, I argue, requires a moral economy lens that can account for the novel entanglements between profit …