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CIAO DATE: 4/5/2007
Markets As Conversations: Markets' Contribution To Civility, The Public Sphere And Civil Society At Large
Victor Pérez-Diaz
December 2006
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Abstract
The author restates a traditional, broad and composite view of civil society, of increasing relevance at a time of ever greater complexity in a non-state centered world; and he explores the relations between markets, associations and politics as parts of that interconnected whole. Markets as conversations shape people’s dispositions and help developing a set of civil and civic virtues, bracketed together under the rubric of civility. The paper examines the scope and limits of these civilizing effects on politics and the public sphere.
