Reading political responses to food, fuel and financial crises: The return of the moral economy?

Research into the impact of the food, fuel and financial crises uncovered a palpable sense of uncertainty, awareness of global connectedness and a sense that governments had failed to act to protect people. Naomi Hossain draws on these findings to suggest that a reading of the political responses to the crisis - the mass food riots of 2008 - could inform a project of rethinking the goals of development, or global social justice.