ABSTRACT
In the last six chapters I have been concerned to reject market-based approaches to environmental policy, and to defend a central place for the sciences, arts and kindred practices in arriving at decisions about the environment. In this final chapter I place the arguments for these positions within the wider context of debates in political theory, particularly those between proponents of socialism and capitalism concerning the defensibility of markets. I do so by way of three distinctions that have been central to discussion of the market —between: (1) market and household, (2) market and politics, and (3) market and non-market associations. I examine two positions critical of the market that have been informed by these distinctions: the first is found in Marx and aims to construct a non-market order; the second which goes back to Hegel and has been popular in recent political philosophy seeks to place boundaries around the market. I highlight major problems with the second position, and argue that the first ought not yet to be buried.
