Markets without limits : moral virtues and commercial interests / Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski.
Brennan, Jason, 1979-; Jaworski, Peter.
2016
HB72 .M24725 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Markets without limits : moral virtues and commercial interests / Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski.
ISBN
9780415737357 (paperback)
0415737354 (paperback)
9780415737340 (hardcover)
0415737346 (hardcover)
9781315818085 (electronic book)
Published
New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Language
English
Description
xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
HB72 .M24725 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
174/.4
Summary
May you sell your vote? May you sell your kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? May spouses pay each other to watch the kids, do the dishes, or have sex? Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? Most people shudder at the thought. To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is commodified, then nothing is scared. The market corrodes our character. Or so most people say. In Markets without Limits, Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski give markets a fair hearing. The market does not introduce wrongness where there was none previously. Thus, the authors claim, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a simple answer: if you may do it for free, you may do it for money. Contrary to the conservative consensus, they claim there are no inherent limits to what can be bought and sold, but only restrictions on how we buy and sell. -- Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index.
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Brennan, Jason, 1979-
Jaworski, Peter.
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Part I. Should everything be for sale?
1. Are there some things money should not buy?
2. If you may do it for free, you may do it for money
3. What the commodification debate is and is not about
4. It's the how, not the what
Part II. Do markets signal disrespect?
5. Semiotic objections
6. The mere commodity objection
7. The wrong signal and wrong currency objections
8. Objections: semiotic essentialism and minding our manners
Part III. Do markets corrupt?
9. The corruption objection
10. How to make a sound corruption objection
11. The selfishness objection
12. The crowding out objection
13. The immoral preference objection
14. The low quality objection
15. The civics objection
Part IV. Exploitation, harm to self, and misallocation
16. Essential and incidental objections
17. Line up for expensive equality!
18. Baby buying
19. Vote selling
Part V. Debunking institutions
20. Anti-market attitudes are resilient
21. Where do anti-market attitudes come from?
22. The pseudo-morality of disgust
23. Postscript.

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