An advanced market economy has many attractive features, but it also has certain features—e.g. powerful business corporations—that seem to be inconsistent with liberal democratic values. Over the last 10 years, I have been developing a more sophisticated normative conception of market society. Unlike Michael Walzer and Elizabeth Anderson, who focus on segregating the market from the rest of social life, my approach is to re-interpret central features of market arrangements to make them more consistent with liberal democratic ideals. Many of my views stem from a more nuanced interpretation of the public-private distinction. My work has been influenced by historical figures, especially Hegel and Marx, as well as by contemporary theorists, including T. M. Scanlon, Jürgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, John Rawls, H. L. A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, and Charles Lindblom.

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