ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book expresses that the technical properties adjudicated to the market mechanism by mainstream economics are insufficient to accept it from a moral point of view. It explores that the market mechanism tends to encourage a consumerist behaviour which departs from the autonomous behaviour required by moral conduct. The book describes the functioning of the market mechanism as a system uniquely focused on the production of useless and even the damaging things is surely exaggerated. It explains the necessity of using the market system to move towards – exogenously – preferred social states, instead of being used by it. The book discusses how the social choices could be made. Social problems are moral in character and, as such, they can only be ascertained aprioristically through moral knowledge.
