Economists think of markets in a much richer and deeper way than people do. The word market is a valuable metaphor for describing certain types of things being transacted, like forming a marriage. People are trying to fall in match that they'll both get a lot of satisfaction out of. And so you look, the market means that you look for an equilibrium.
Russ Roberts interviews Gary Becker, of the University of Chicago, on the challenges of being an intellectual maverick, the economic approach to human behavior, the influences of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall on Becker's work and Becker's optimism for the future of economics.