Jim Otteson and Ron Sider "The Morality of Markets"

Panelists took up questions such as: what is the best way to organize our economy? Does a free market support individual liberty and responsibility? What is the right relationship between politics and the marketplace? In what ways do the individual and the family interact with the market? Does the marketplace uphold human dignity? What kinds, if any, of voluntary associations (as Tocqueville described them) are necessary for the free market to succeed? What is Adam Smith's understanding of human nature and how does it influence a humane economy?