Hegel's Speculative Ontology and Global Trade

This contribution aims to address the influence and the possible applications of Hegel’s philosophy in the social sciences, particularly economics. What Hegel has in common with the actual studies of economics is the consideration of the role of the market in the determination of our economic life and choices. I suppose that the market can be treated as a holistic phenomenon that includes singular elements, which are also its expression (Sen 1987). Therefore the global space of commercial trade represents the dimension in which operators, entrepreneurs, bankers, managers and contractors act and by which everyone is determined. The freedom of these actors in the scene of the free trade is ruled both by laws and by other members and the level of participation is the result of this kind of determination.