Download or read book The Ethics of the Market written by J. Meadowcroft and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethics of the Market makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on the morality of the market by synthesizing the work of a number of liberal scholars into a systematic defence of the free market on ethical grounds. This defence addresses questions of social justice, the moral pre-requisites of a market economy, the nature of the needs that the market satisfies and the appropriate boundaries that should be placed around the operation of the market.