Are markets moral?

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Title Statements

Full title :Are markets moral? / edited by Edward Skidelsky, Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK, Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, UK.

Summary

What happens to the morality of a society in which money rules the roost? In this book, over a dozen philosophers and economists come together to examine the consequences of living in a society in which exchanges between people increasingly take the form of buying and selling goods and services for money. Based on conference papers and discussions, this volume asks, in which ways does money change us? Capitalism's encouragement of greed is often considered to be its main moral failing, while also being the source of its economic energy. But this book is not solely, or even mainly, about the 'greed' of capitalism. A major theme is the contamination of moral values, including those of security and equality, by money values. Instead of the market being embedded in society, society has come to be embedded in the market. Are Markets Moral? provides an insightful debate on the morality of a capitalist market, and is essential reading for scholars and researchers of economics and ethics, and it will also appeal to policy-makers, practitioners and the interested lay reader.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

Notes

Presentations from the symposium "Markets and morals" that took place over four sessions in London on 23 May 2013.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 148 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781137472731, 1137472731
oclc:ocn886381715
LC Classification:HG220.3
Dewey Decimal:174/.4

Restraining insatiability -- Equality and corruption -- The moral limits of markets -- The meaning of money.

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