ABSTRACT
Neera Badhwar highlights the interplay between personal and impersonal dimensions of trust and reciprocity in the context of organ markets. Critics of market society argue that community is corrupted by commerce. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, John Dewey even John Rawls argue that commercial relations lead us to see our fellows in the wrong way, as mere means to our commercial ends rather than as separate and equal sources of value. Maria Paganelli looks at how commercial relationships evolved in response to changing market conditions in the emerging eighteenth-century Scottish banking industry. Badhwar suggests how kidney markets can create new international communities, supplanting existing perverse communities with new market-based associations. Steve Horwitz suggests that communities, at their best, consist of market-like processes of social learning and cooperation. Associational communities tend to have attractive features that communities based on shared norms or val.
