![]() (2019), " Pecunia non olet but Does Rose Money Smell? On Rose Oil Prices and Moral Economy in Isparta, Turkey", The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price ( Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. This paper draws on research that has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC Grant agreement no. As usual the author is responsible for any shortcomings. Sincere thanks are due to the rose growers and rose oil processors and Gülbirlik as well as colleagues at the Süleyman Demirel University in Isparta, who have supported the research wholeheartedly. Further thanks go to Chris Hann, James Carrier, Bruce Grant, Alessandro Testa, Deema Kaneff, and two anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions, critique, and improvements on the paper. The author would like to thank Peter Luetchford and Giovanni Orlando for their thorough editorial assistance and suggestions, also colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Halle, in Pardubice and Warsaw for their comments and discussion. A subsequent version has been published within the Working Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (no. KeywordsĮarlier versions of this paper have been presented at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, the Universities of Pardubice and of Warsaw and also at the Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in July 2016, at a panel organized by Peter Luetchford and Giovanni Orlando. Findings are provisional and the research is on-going, but the discourse on just prices clearly suggests that value judgments are embedded in and implicitly critical of capitalist markets. Through careful observation of payment and price formation procedures, the paper raises issues concerning the moral economy of price formation. Although prices are seen as good, there are concerns about overproduction and fierce competition between the rose oil firms to buy the harvest, hence pushing up rose prices and, leading to a crash in rose oil prices on the world market. Prices and production have been steadily increasing since 2010. The market actors for rose oil are global cosmetic and local processing firms and almost all rose oil from Isparta is exported. Farmers have been engaging in rose cultivation for over a century and rose oil production is considered to be a traditional industry. I suppose it also implies that he’s inclined to say “no” to everything except money.This paper investigates rose and rose oil production in the province of Isparta, Turkey, with reference to the discourses on and procedures of price formation. It implies that he’s willing to take money wherever he can get it, and it’s an allusion to the fact that he’s more qualified to be a sanitation engineer than a college president. We’re told that the warden was “an elderly civil servant,” not an academic, and that his biggest accomplishment was that he had written “a monumental report on National Sanitation.” When Emperor Vespasian’s son Titus complained about the disgusting nature of the urine tax, the emperor held up a gold coin and said “Pecunia non olet.” The phrase goes back to the tax paid by those who bought the contents of public urinals as a source of ammonia. It’s a reference to “Pecunia non olet” which translates as “Money doesn’t stink.” The idea is that money is money, and it doesn’t matter if it comes from a distasteful source. “Must be some Latin thing.” This time I looked it up. The first time I read the novel I zoomed past this tidbit. N.O., which stood for Non-Olet, was the nickname of Charles Place, the warden of Bracton. I’m going through it slowly this time, paying attention to details I glossed over before.įor example, early in the book we’re told that the head of a college has the nickname N.O. I’ve been rereading That Hideous Strength. ![]()
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