My Goal Is First Of All To

Over The Past Three Decades, Markets And Market Thinking Have Been Reaching Into Spheres Of Life Traditionally Governed By Non-market Norms. As A Result, We've Drifted From Having A Market Economy To Becoming A Market Society.

When I Arrived At Harvard, I Wanted To Design A Course In Political Theory That Would Have Interested Me, Back When I Was Started Out, In A Way That The Standard Things Didn't.

A Market Economy Is A Tool - A Valuable And Effective Tool - For Organizing Productive Activity. A Market Society Is A Way Of Life In Which Market Values Seep Into Every Aspect Of Human Endeavour. It's A Place Where Social Relations Are Made Over In The Image Of The Market.

Human Beings Are Empowered To Exercise Dominion Over Nature And Even To Be Participants In Creation; And Yet, At The Same Time, There Are Strictures Against Idolatry, Which Is A Kind Of Overreaching And Confusing Human Beings' Role With God's.

One Of The Appeals Of Markets, As A Public Philosophy, Is They Seem To Spare Us The Need To Engage In Public Arguments About The Meaning Of Goods. So Markets Seem To Enable Us To Be Non-judgmental About Values. But I Think That's A Mistake.