The views and arguments presented in these papers provide a comprehensive review of the ethical problems raised by market societies and their impact on the quality of our lives.

Contents: Introduction; The Market and Values: The moral boundaries of markets; Markets and moral minimalism; Is the consumer always right?: Subject-relative valuations and inherent values; Quality of life, environment and markets; The communitarian critique of the market. The Market and Social Institutions: The ethical effects of privatisation; Poverty and social exclusion; Social justice and process versus end-state conceptions of competition; Passive patient or responsible consumer: market values and the normative ideal; Relocating the ethical consumer?.