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How to Deal With Flawed Markets

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Possible solutions to the problems raised by markets, regulation and utopias have their own problems. Virtue ethics is suggested as a way for taming markets.

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  • Market Economy
  • Virtue Ethic
  • Ethical Theory
  • Market Mechanism
  • Wage Increase

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Rutherford, D. (2016). How to Deal With Flawed Markets. In: Suspicions of Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40808-8_8

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