ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the constitutional framework that would need locking in to make economic arrangements compatible with sphere pluralism. It would assure liberty in the multiple spheres of a pluralist world, as well as the channelling of resources through the institutions of each sphere. While market-centred libertarianism rightly challenges state overreach, it has blind spots for social goods beyond both state and market. Sphere pluralism can support an alternative constitutional structure for material life by drawing on traditional ideas of economic ethics as well as spheres of exchange consistent with each good. The argument touches on provision for needs in health and education independent of the state, for example. It also suggests benefits from strengthening civil society and a gift economy that would redirect revenue away from the state, with its limited public order functions, toward other spheres of social life. The economic constitution would also reconfigure state taxation, regulation, and monetary arrangements.
