Harmonization Between Communitarian Ethics and Market Economics (Essay‪)‬

Introduction While economic thinkers in previous centuries, such as Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall, devoted a fair amount of attention to issues of values, the subject has tended to recede from the concerns of mainstream economists of the twentieth century. Over the past two decades or so, however, there has been a gradual resurgence of interest in the subject. (1) Indeed, one may safely claim that it now constitutes a branch of economics in its own right, and that it may come increasingly to influence other areas of the discipline in the future.