It is a serious mistake to think that all we need for a just world
is properly-structured organizations. But it is equally wrong to
believe that all we need are virtuous people. Social structures
alter people's decisions through the influence of the restrictions
and opportunities they present. Does buying a shirt at the local
department store create for you some responsibility for the
workplace welfare of the women who sewed it half a planet away?
Many people interested in justice have claimed so, but without
identifying any causal link between consumer and producer, for the
simple reason that no single consumer has any perceptible effect on
any of those producers. Finn uses a critical realist understanding
of social structures to view both the positive and negative effects
of the market as a social structure comprising a long chain of
causal relations from consumer/clerk to factory manager/seamstress.
This causal connection creates a consequent moral responsibility
for consumers and society for the destructive effects that markets
help to create. Clearly written and engaging, this book is a
must-read for scholars involved with these moral issues.
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