DescriptionTo what extent does political intervention into the market condition how individuals find the lives that they lead to be enjoyable, rewarding, and satisfying? I develop theoretical insights that help push the literature beyond its preeminent focus on the overall size, or depth, of state intervention into private markets by asking finer-grained questions about how different forms of market intervention influence the relationship between state intervention and subjective well-being. I focus on three causal conditionalities that represent important theoretical omissions from the literature. All hypotheses are tested using multilevel statistical analyses of times series cross sectional and panel survey data across select OECD countries over the past twenty years.