POLS 044. Markets and Morality (TH)

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.Prerequisites: ECON1 and ONE of the following POLS 11, 12, 34, 47, 100, or 101; PHIL 11, 21 41, 101, or 121. Co-taught with Mark Kuperberg under ECON 43.
This course falls within the theory subfield but only POLS 11, 12, 100, 101, 107 or 117 satisfy the theory requirement.
Social Sciences
1 credit
Eligible for PPE.
Catalog chapter: Political Science
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/political-science

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