Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals
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Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals
| Full title | Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals? |
|---|---|
| Author | Virgil Henry Storr & Ginny Seung Choi |
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 324 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Storr and Choi state the moral objection to commercial society at full strength — that markets make people greedier and less trusting — then test it against World Values Survey data, experiments and cross-country comparisons, and find the correlation running the other way: repeated dealing with strangers rewards honesty more reliably than exhortation does. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, closing the Capitalism, Morality, and Culture section as the empirical answer to the objection Rogan, Weber, Veblen and Greenfeld put most sharply. Shared March 2026; full transcription on The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Markets — the institution on trial.
- Capitalism — the broader subject of the section.
- Morality — the dependent variable the book measures.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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