Markets are institutions, not just price tags
Markets are institutions where people or collective agents exchange goods and services. Money usually serves as a medium of exchange, which produces prices. That is only the first layer: markets can be separated by what they trade, how wide their scope is, and whether competition, oligopoly, or monopoly structures them. The philosophical question is whether any particular market can be defended, and how markets interact with institutions that carry values such as liberty, justice, or solidarity.
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Markets can be compared by what they trade, their geographic scope, and their structure.
The excerpt also says markets shape how liberty, justice, and solidarity are realized, so the question is not only how exchange is organized.
That makes “market” a definition to settle before the moral argument begins.