morality

April 04, 2019

Beto O’Rourke’s markets and morality mismatch

Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke, who famously lost a senate bid against Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the 2018 election, is currently one of the front-runners in the Democratic presidential primary race. Continue Reading...

January 21, 2019

Martin Luther King Jr., moral philosopher

Almost everyone has read Letter from Birmingham Jail – a brilliant essay. Just about everyone recognizes Martin Luther King Jr. as a great civil rights activist and orator. Which he certainly was. Continue Reading...

November 20, 2018

New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 21, No. 2)

The newest issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality has been published online and print copies are forthcoming. This issue features a diverse selection of scholarship on the morality of the marketplace and the nature and history of free societies. Continue Reading...

July 24, 2018

Why religion is a central pillar to the civil society

In an article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Kay Coles James, president of the Heritage Foundation, argues that “the health of a civil society is dependent on religious expression and liberty.” Continue Reading...

July 11, 2018

Corporations: moral, immoral, or amoral?

Is the free market moral? To hear its opponents describe it, the free market is an unethical system that exploits workers, consumers and the environment to make a quick buck. To critics such as Marx, capitalism leaves “no other bond between man and man than naked self-interest,” replacing human connections with cost-benefit analyses and supply-and-demand charts. Continue Reading...

July 10, 2018

Pahman to First Things: Markets are not inherently destructive to the soul

In “Origami of the Soul,” published recently by First Things, Timothy Reichert and Francis X. Maier argued that “hierarchical institutions” are needed to spiritually form the individual and that markets not only cannot form the individual, but also damage the institutions that would seek to. Continue Reading...

February 20, 2018

New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 20, No. 2)

The newest issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality has been published online and print copies are forthcoming. This issue is the first with our new executive editor Kevin Schmiesing and our new book review editor Andrew M. Continue Reading...

August 29, 2017

New Issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality (Vol. 20, No. 1)

The newest issue of the Journal of Markets & Morality, vol. 20, no. 1, has been published online and print copies are in the mail. This issue is a special issue on “Morality, Neoclassical Economics, and John Maynard Keynes.” Continue Reading...

August 22, 2017

The cramped morality of trade protectionism

“If a product is seen only as the opportunity for work, it is certain that the anxieties of protectionists are well founded.” –Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms Drawing inspiration from a 1847 essay by the inimitable Frédéric Bastiat, economist Donald Boudreaux tackles a popular argument from today’s trade protectionists: namely, “that protectionism is justified if enough consumers or voters are willing to pay higher prices in order to help workers.” Continue Reading...

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