The Markets & Society conference and journal aim to bring together scholars, students, and practitioners from various disciplines, ideological perspectives, and backgrounds who seek to advance inquiry on economies and communities, the potential for human flourishing, the nature and consequences of institutions, the possibility and limits of governance and resilience, the burdens, biases, and injustices that result from human interaction and institutions, and the conditions for cooperation.

The Markets & Society conference and journal are particularly interested in multi-disciplinary research grounded in mainline political economy.