This lecture focuses on the question of whether justice in relation to markets is entirely to be seen as being procedural - that justice is a matter of securing the conditions of non-coercive economic exchange between free individuals. Or is justice also about social justice- that is to say about the proper distribution of resources and a concern about the outcomes of markets? If justice is about social as well as procedural justice how can we arrive at criteria for distributive justice if all moral values are seen as subjective? Should we not rather see market outcomes, in the words of the economist Fred Hirsch as being "in principle unprincipled"?

This is a part of the lecture series, Religion and Values in a Liberal State.

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