The Market for Ideas is an essay journal “made in common sense”, hosting a community of individuals and a communion of individualities. www.themarketforideas.com editor@themarketforideas.com About us The Market for Ideas is an essay journal “made in common sense”, hosting a community of individuals and a communion of individualities. It is a modest tribute to the ideal of a society of high standards which fosters reasoned debate and principled argumentation. Its origins and roots are Romanian, but its outlook is International, striving to make sense of a complicated world and to extract valuable lessons for elites and those who aspire to such a status. It is ultimately a platform for dialogue between “prosumers”, the consumers and producers of ideas. Its meaning is to be a stage and possibly a proving ground for a host of issues presented for consideration, from exhibits of scientific rationality to artistic sensibility and everything in between. Values & mission The Market for Ideas is published under the auspices of the Romanian-American Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture (RAFPEC), whose preoccupations center on the cultivation of our civilization’s values in keeping with historic roots and the transatlantic dimension. The Romanian cultural space is one of sustained cultural synthesis, whose animating spirit is conducive to both passionate argumentation and an openness to criticism and whose moral fiber evinces an ideal of freedom of conscience. Editorial policy The Market for Ideas is an International publication devoted to the freedom of seeking and expressing scientific or popular truth, as assessed and assumed by the issuers of the published assertions, in good faith and with all due diligence. The expressed opinions belong strictly to their creators, who bear the full responsibility for their soundness and accuracy. By no means do they engage the liability of The Market for Ideas or of the institutions with which it is affiliated.