Università Roma Tre

In these last decades, the market has increasingly become a normative paradigm also for law (administrative law, environmental law, labor law, international law…). The main reasons lie in the alleged capacity of the market to promote not only efficiency, but also justice. With regard to this last claim, the values most often invoked include freedom, responsibility and merit. The main objective of the course is to present these reasons to the students as well as the main objections that can be addressed to them. The underlying assumption is that too often the positions and proposals about the role of markets in society, be they of praise or blame, reflect ideological biases. A considered reflection is essential to understand the attractiveness and the limitations of an institution as important as the market is.