Editing Rowan Williams (section)

===Economics===
In 2002, Williams delivered the [[Richard Dimbleby]] lecture and chose to talk about the problematic nature of the nation-state but also of its successors. He cited the "market state" as offering an inadequate vision of the way a state should operate, partly because it was liable to short-term and narrowed concerns (thus rendering it incapable of dealing with, for instance, issues relating to the [[Environmental degradation|degradation of the natural environment]]) and partly because a public arena which had become value-free was liable to disappear amidst the multitude of competing private interests. (He noted the same moral vacuum in British society after his visit to China in 2006.) He is not uncritical of [[communitarianism]], but his reservations about [[consumerism]] have been a constant theme. These views have often been expressed in quite strong terms; for example, he once commented that "Every transaction in the developed economies of the West can be interpreted as an act of aggression against the economic losers in the worldwide game."<ref>{{cite news|last=Mullen |first=Peter |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1249948,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103163932/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3284-1249948,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 January 2006 |title=I despair at the 9/11 naivety of Rowan Williams -Times Online |work=The Times |location=UK |date= 7 September 2004|access-date=28 December 2008 }}</ref>

Williams has supported the [[Robin Hood tax|Robin Hood tax campaign]] since March 2010, re-affirming his support in a November 2011 article he published in the ''Financial Times''.<ref>{{cite news
|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7061026.ece
|title= Think tank: Hit the City with a Robin Hood tax
|newspaper= [[The Sunday Times]]
|author=  Rowan Williams and [[Richard Curtis]]
|date=14 March 2010
|access-date=29 March 2010}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
</ref><ref>
{{Cite news
|url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a561a4f6-0485-11e1-ac2a-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a561a4f6-0485-11e1-ac2a-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live
|title= Time for Us to Challenge the Idols of High Finance
|work= Financial Times
|location= London
|last= Williams
|first= Rowan
|date = 1 November 2011
|access-date=2 November 2011}}
</ref><ref>
{{Cite news
|url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85ab605c-04a8-11e1-91d9-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/85ab605c-04a8-11e1-91d9-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live
|title= Archbishop Backs 'Robin Hood Tax'
|work= Financial Times
|location= London
|last= Parker
|first= George
|date = 2 November 2011
|access-date=2 November 2011}}
</ref> He is also a vocal opponent of tax avoidance and a proponent of corporate social responsibility, arguing that "economic growth and prosperity are about serving the human good, not about serving private ends".<ref>{{Cite news
 |url          = http://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/i/former-archbishop-canterbury-rowan-williams-talks-world-weekly-about-good-tax-citizenship/2546
 |title        = Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams talks to The World Weekly about good tax citizenship
 |publisher    = [[The World Weekly]]
 |author       = Josh White
 |date         = 23 October 2014
|access-date   = 24 February 2015
|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20150224193712/http://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/i/former-archbishop-canterbury-rowan-williams-talks-world-weekly-about-good-tax-citizenship/2546
 |archive-date = 24 February 2015
|url-status     = usurped
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref>