ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes markets as moral contexts that can influence market actors in ways that make them relevant to discussions democracy. Markets are not sites of apolitical action or “free markets”; they are formative. Markets actively engage actors in ways that are morally formative. Applying insights from Catholic theological anthropology, the chapter shows that markets can be a means for encouraging or inhibiting human freedom. It concludes by considering the moral and political significance of how we structure the economic contexts in which Americans live. McRorie invites engagement in markets particulars and at a granular level to properly attend to their moral complicity and power.
