{"product_id":"are-markets-moral-hardback-9780812250527","title":"Are Markets Moral? (Hardback) 9780812250527","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAre Markets Moral?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eArthur M. Melzer (Edited by), Steven J. Kautz (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812250527\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 October 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Arthur M. Melzer and Steven J. Kautz's timely and essential collection \u003ci\u003eAre Markets Moral?\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the morality of markets...a rare book with writings from some of the top thinkers in this field. Melzer and Kautz have successfully assembled a group of thought-provoking scholars who are deeply concerned about the state of our moral souls in a market society.\" (The Independent Revieew) \"A unique collection of essays on morality and the market: no other volume I know of gathers as many different voices or as many concerns with non-Western economies.\" (Samuel Fleischacker, University of Illinois at Chicago) \"\u003ci\u003eAre Markets Moral?\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome project of interest not only to scholars and students in fields such as political science, philosophy, business, economics, and law but also to any reader interested in the relationship between capitalism and morality.\" (Ryan Patrick Hanley, Marquette University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the remarkable achievements of free markets-their rapid spread around the world and success at generating economic growth-they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of circumstances that portend inevitable catastrophe. Thus, from the beginning, capitalism has been particularly stimulative for the growth of critics and doomsayers. While early analysts such as Karl Marx primarily emphasized an impending economic disaster, in recent years the economic critique of capitalism has receded in favor of moral and environmental concerns.\u003cbr\u003e At the heart of this collection of original essays lies the question: does morality demand that we adopt a primarily supportive or critical stance toward capitalism? Some contributors suggest that the foundational principles of the capitalist system may be at odds with the central requirements of morality, while others wonder whether the practical workings of markets slowly erode moral character or hinder the just distribution of goods. Still others consider whether morality itself does not demand the economic freedom constitutive of the capitalist system. The essays in \u003ci\u003eAre Markets Moral?\u003c\/i\u003e represent a broad array of disciplines, from economics to philosophy to law, and place particular emphasis on the experiences of non-Western countries where the latest chapters in capitalism's history are now being written.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Andrew S. Bibby, Gurcharan Das, Richard A. Epstein, Fonna Forman, Robert P. George, Steven J. Kautz, Peter Augustine Lawler, Steven Lukes, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Peter McNamara, Arthur M. Melzer, John Tomasi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559202550040,"sku":"9780812250527","price":34.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/are-markets-moral-hardback-9780812250527","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}