ABSTRACT
People are free to develop their capacities as they see fit, markets are efficient, what’s normal feels right. Normalization links agent and structure, with normalization comes normativization, this is a co-constitutive process. Normativity means law – no wonder lawyers like Liberalism and think in terms of rights. Under liberal auspices, the modern world is already too far along in consuming itself. Liberal arrangements encourage each of us to do what we do best and receive the best possible rewards for doing so. In these circumstances, rewards are proportionate to contributions to the general welfare, which is thereby maximized. There are a few pages in Nations, Markets, and War pointing the way, but the clearest statement is published in a place few scholars in international relations would chance to look: a yearbook called Global Community.
