# Do Markets Make Us Worse?

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/do-markets-make-us-worse>

**By** Ginny Choi, Aaron Ross Powell, Trevor Burrus

**Published:** December 10, 2021

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Ginny Choi joins the podcast to discuss how people in market societies are wealthier, healthier, happier and better connected than those in societies where markets are more restricted.

## Shownotes:

Individuals like to argue that as we engage in market activity, the more likely we are to become selfish \& corrupt. Even Adam Smith, who famously celebrated markets, believed that there were moral costs associated with life in market societies. Ginny Choi explains that successful markets require and produce virtuous participants. Markets serve as moral spaces that both rely on and reward their participants for being virtuous.

## Further Reading:

[Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?](https://www.amazon.com/Do-Markets-Corrupt-Our-Morals/dp/3030184153), written by Ginny Choi and Virgil Henry Storr