ECON 043. Markets and Morality

(Cross-listec as POLS 044)
The course will investigate the place that markets and market outcomes should have in a free society. Topics covered will include: competing concepts of freedom; the proper sphere of market activity (what should and should not be for sale); theories of fairness and distributive justice; and what should be done to balance freedom and equality in the economic sphere. Co-taught with Jonathan Thakkar under POLS 44.
Prerequisite: ECON 001 and ONE of the following POLS 11, 12, 34, 47, 100, 101 PHIL 11, 21, 41, 101, or 121.
Social Sciences.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Economics
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/economics

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