Not only in economics people often talks about markets in fairly different circumstances. What does that mean? The Britannica Online Encyclopedia serves us with the following definition: "A market is a mean by which the exchange of goods and services takes place as a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another, either directly or through mediating agents or institutions."1 What they call 'means' could also be named as a social arrangement. Analogously to the physical location of a street market every other form of markets is a man-made institution in order to organize trade. Thereby it is in addition to the right of own property probably the most salient feature of every capitalist system. But as long as markets are not natural but social constructs, they and the way they are shaped have to be subjects of human monitoring. Although this seems self- evident from an impartial point of view, free markets and their results are often taken for granted by some economists. This article focuses on the results of markets, the so called market outcomes. More precisely it is about the justice of market outcomes with special attention to the ideology and thought of Neo-liberalism with respect to this subject. During this article I will continue along the following structure: First I will expose the possibility of market failures and distinguish these failures into traditional market failures and another form of undesirable market outcomes, the failures-of-market outcomes. After that, we will devote attention to the upswing of the New Right and its ideological background. After focusing on two extremely influential thinkers - Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Nozick - we will examine the justice of free markets. I will finally end up with a conclusion in which I resume the most important results and give an overview about the implications. [...]

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Not only in economics people often talks about markets in fairly different
circumstances. What does that mean? The Britannica Online Encyclopedia serves us
with the following definition:
"A market is a mean by which the exchange of goods and services takes place
as a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another, either directly
or through mediating agents or institutions."1
What they call 'means' could also be named as a social arrangement. Analogously to
the physical location of a street market every other form of markets is a man-made
institution in order to organize trade. Thereby it is in addition to the right of own
property probably the most salient feature of every capitalist system.
But as long as markets are not natural but social constructs, they and the way they
are shaped have to be subjects of human monitoring. Although this seems self-
evident from an impartial point of view, free markets and their results are often taken
for granted by some economists. This article focuses on the results of markets, the
so called market outcomes. More precisely it is about the justice of market outcomes
with special attention to the ideology and thought of Neo-liberalism with respect to
this subject.
During this article I will continue along the following structure: First I will expose the
possibility of market failures and distinguish these failures into traditional market
failures and another form of undesirable market outcomes, the failures-of-market
outcomes. After that, we will devote attention to the upswing of the New Right and its
ideological background. After focusing on two extremely influential thinkers -
Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Nozick - we will examine the justice of free markets.
I will finally end up with a conclusion in which I resume the most important results
and give an overview about the implications.

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Zusammenfassung
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,3, Stellenbosch Universitiy (University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)), course: Modern Economic Systems and Global Capitalism, language: English, abstract: Not only in economics people often talks about markets in fairly differentcircumstances. What does that mean? The Britannica Online Encyclopedia serves uswith the following definition:A market is a mean by which the exchange of goods and services takes placeas a result of buyers and sellers being in contact with one another, either directlyor through mediating agents or institutions.1What they call 'means' could also be named as a social arrangement. Analogously tothe physical location of a street market every other form of markets is a man-madeinstitution in order to organize trade. Thereby it is in addition to the right of ownproperty probably the most salient feature of every capitalist system.But as long as markets are not natural but social constructs, they and the way theyare shaped have to be subjects of human monitoring. Although this seems self-evident from an impartial point of view, free markets and their results are often takenfor granted by some economists. This article focuses on the results of markets, theso called market outcomes. More precisely it is about the justice of market outcomeswith special attention to the ideology and thought of Neo-liberalism with respect tothis subject.During this article I will continue along the following structure: First I will expose thepossibility of market failures and distinguish these failures into traditional marketfailures and another form of undesirable market outcomes, the failures-of-marketoutcomes. After that, we will devote attention to the upswing of the New Right and itsideological background. After focusing on two extremely influential thinkers Friedrich von Hayek and Robert Nozick we will examine the justice of free markets.I will finally end up with a conclusion in which I resume the most important resultsand give an overview about the implications.[...]