Contested Commodities
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Contested Commodities

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Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin observes that many such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society: we value freedom of choice and simultaneously believe that choices ought to be restricted to protect the integrity of what it means to be a person. She views this tension as primarily the result of underlying social and economic inequality, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the premises of liberal democracy.As a philosophical pragmatist, the author therefore argues for a conception of incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under carefully regulated circumstances. Such a regulatory regime both symbolizes the importance of nonmarket value to personhood and aspires to ameliorate the underlying conditions of inequality.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780674290105
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1. Commodification as a Worldview
  9. Chapter 2. Market-Inalienability
  10. Chapter 3. Problems for the Idea of a Market Domain
  11. Chapter 4. Compartmentalization: Attempting to Delineate a Market Domain
  12. Chapter 5. Personhood and the Dialectic of Contextuality
  13. Chapter 6. Human Flourishing and Market Rhetoric
  14. Chapter 7. Incomplete Commodification
  15. Chapter 8. Conceptual Recapitulation
  16. Chapter 9. The Double Bind
  17. Chapter 10. Prostitution and Baby-Selling: Contested Commodification and Women’s Capacities
  18. Chapter 11. Commodification, Objectification, and Subordination
  19. Chapter 12. Free Expression
  20. Chapter 13. Compensation
  21. Chapter 14. Democracy
  22. Notes
  23. Index