A reader passes along the following Call For Papers, which I thought might be of interest to you bunch:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Symposium on the Ethical limits to markets

To be published in: Moral Philosophy and Politics

Claims about the dominance or “hegemony” of the market abound in contemporary discourse, yet there remain areas of social life in which goods are not produced and/or allocated via markets. There are also areas of social life in which the market mechanism operates but is contested. The editors of Moral Philosophy and Politics invite high quality submissions which examine questions such as:

• Are there goods that cannot, opposed to should not, be produced and/or allocated via the market?
• What are the characteristics of goods that cannot or should not be bought and sold on markets?
• Is there a “general theory” of limits to markets, or are their limits to be enumerated on a case-by-case basis rather than with an all-encompassing theory?
• Are there examples of discourses about limits to markets in history from which contemporary debates can learn?
• What are the processes through which a given good enters the market domain, having been previously produced or allocated by non-market means?
• What sorts of ethical arguments and sentiments are made by lay people who oppose “marketization”?
• What are the processes through which ethical opposition to “marketization” is reduced or broken down?
• To what extent can questions about ethical limits to markets be detached from wider questions about the ethics of “market society” or “capitalism”?

Commentaries and critiques of recent literature on the limits of markets are also welcomed.

Submissions are to be received via the journal’s manuscript submission site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mopp) by 1st January, 2015.

For more information, please contact Mark Peacock.