Markets, Community, and Pluralism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chad Van Schoelandt (0000-0002-0913-4895, University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 254 |
| Pages | 144-151 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqt021 |
| OpenAlex | W2020729088 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In Why Not Socialism?, G. A. Cohen presents a provocative and thoroughgoing rejection of markets, insisting that market competition and market-based inequalities as such undermine conditions of community. According to Cohen, markets rest on base motives and naturally engender community-undermining inequalities. This paper critically assesses Cohen's community-based objection to markets. It shows that his objection presupposes a conception of community that is antithetical to pluralism and it argues that his characterisation of the motives of market participants is too simple. A more appropriate conception centers on pro-social norms and trust -- social features empirically encouraged by markets.
Competition (biology) · Economics · Epistemology · Inequality · Law and economics · Market economy · Market system · Neoclassical economics · Pluralism (philosophy) · Political science · Positive economics · Socialism · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.55 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |