May 9-10, 2025
This workshop will be held at Worcester College, Oxford, UK
About the Workshop
This workshop brings together scholars from various disciplines who work on foundational normative questions related to markets.
Markets arise and operate through law — not just through public regulation but also through private law regimes (in property, contract, and tort) that create entitlements, enforce market exchanges, and limit expropriation. The operation of markets also reflects and reinforces a set of social norms — e.g., atomism, competition, douceur, etc. — and these too bear no necessary connection to market activity. Thus, any particular market architecture is not inevitable, but rather the result of a complex set of choices and developments.
The contingent, constructed nature of the legal rules and social norms that guide the market — or, maybe, markets (since different markets may be differently designed) — implies that the legal and social infrastructure of the market can, and indeed should, be normatively evaluated. The purpose of this interdisciplinary workshop on The Normative Foundations of the Market is to critically investigate the normative underpinnings that can, should, or in fact do underlie the operation of the market (or of a specific market, such as the labor market or the housing market).
Program
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Workshop: The Normative Foundations of the Market
Date: Friday, 9th May and Saturday 10th May 2025
Time: 9:00 am on Friday 9th, finishing by 4:00 pm on Saturday 10th
Venue: The Linbury Room, Worcester College, Walton Street Oxford OX1 2HB
Accessibility: Access guide for Worcester College
On arrival to Worcester College, enter through the front gate where you will see the Porter’s Lodge immediately to your right. Should you need assistance there is a member of staff available to help direct you to the Linbury Room. The Linbury Room is located to the left of the College’s main quad, through the passage under the crest of a red griffin, and across the Nuffield lawn. A map of Worcester College can be found here.
Refreshments and lunch will be served on both days.
On Friday 9 May, dinner will be hosted at the Old Library, Wadham College.
Time: 19:30
Dress code: Smart or business casual
Address: Wadham College, Parks Road, OX1 3PN
Accessibility: The Old Library is accessed via 33 steps from the Cloisters. Regrettably there is no ramp or lift to gain access to this area.
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Participants
Jeremias Adams-Prassi
Shai Agmon
Elizabeth Anderson
Veronica Aoki Santarosa
Abbye Atkinson
Mehrsa Baradaran
Eric Beinhocker
Sanja Bogojevic
Brookes Brown
Ruth Chang
Mala Chatterjee
Thomas Christiano
Chiara Cordelli
Nicolas Cornell
Hanoch Dagan
Tsilly Dagan
Dhammika Dharmapala
Avihay Dorfman
David Enoch
Ariel Ezrahi
Cecille Fabre
Talia Fisher
Johann Frick
Rachel Friedman
Mark Gergen
David Grewal
Matt Hamilton
Lisa Herzog
Nien-hê Hsieh
Julian Jonker
Felix Koch
Kim Krawiec
Roy Kreitner
Prasad Krishnamurthy
Chris Kutz
Cecille Laborde
Daniel Markovits
Colin Mayer
Jeff McMahan
Alan Morrison
Manisha Padi
Jed Purdy
Julie Rose
Grant Rozeboom
Debra Satz
Amy Sepinwall
Ayelet Shachar
Assaf Sharon
Amia Srinivasan
Johanna Stark
Zofia Stemplowska
Rebecca Stone
Robert Taylor
Jay Wallace
Leif Wenar
Jo Wolff
Mikhail Xifaras