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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Part I: Should everything be for sale? ; 1. Are there some things money should not buy? ; The Debate's Over, And Markets Won, But ... ; But Which Market Society? ; Noxious Markets?; Noxious Potential Markets?; We Are the Critics' Critics; Why This Debate Matters; Notes; 2. If you may do it for free, you may do it for money ; Our Thesis; Incidental Vs. Inherent Wrongness; Three Kinds of Limits; Bad to Worse, If Not Okay to Bad; Notes; 3. What the commodification debate is and is not about |
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Seven Kinds of Objections to CommodificationOur Strategy; Business Ethics Vs. What Can Be For Sale; Regulated Vs. Free Markets; Law Vs. Ethics; The Right to Sell Vs. The Rightness of Selling; Notes; 4. It's the how, not the what ; Time, Place, and Manner; Some Cases; Designing the Manner; Elizabeth Anderson's Surrogacy Market; The Manner of Exchange; Outline; Notes; Part II: Do markets signal disrespect? ; 5. Semiotic objections ; Money Means Something; Semiotic Objections Are Not Supposed to Be Redundant; Three Semiotic Objections; Notes; 6. The mere commodity objection ; The Argument |
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Commodities Vs. Mere CommoditiesCommodities, But Not Mere Commodities; The Meaning of Markets; A Note on the Meaning of Prices; Notes; 7. The wrong signal and wrong currency objections ; The Arguments; An Outline of Our Basic Response; The Meaning of Money and Exchange Is a Contingent Social Construct; The Cost of Meaning: Why We Should Not Take Semiotics for Granted; Notes; 8. Objections: semiotic essentialism and minding our manners ; The Essentialist Objection: The Case of Prostitution; The Haifa Daycare Case; The Swiss Waste Facility Case; Minding Our Manners |
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The Feeling that It's Just Plain WrongNotes; Part III: Do markets corrupt? ; 9. The corruption objection ; "Business Ethics" Is an Oxymoron, Tee Hee; Five Corruption Objections; Notes; 10. How to make a sound corruption objection ; Evidence; The Burden of Proof; Data, Not Anecdotes; Causing Vs. Revealing Corruption; Markets Are Not Corrupting by Definition; Might Markets Corrupt Us in Some Ways While Improving Us in Others?; Might Corruption Be a Price We're Willing to Pay?; Corruption Isn't Strictly Speaking Wrong; Summary; Notes; 11. The selfishness objection ; The Argument |
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Do Markets Corrupt? On the ContraryMarkets and Trust; Pets: A Small Test Case; Markets and Tolerance: How Pricing Labor Ennobles; Notes; 12. The crowding out objection ; The Problem; The Overjustification Effect; Time, Place, Manner: What the Research Shows; When Money Isn't Money; Auctions; Gifts Vs. Commodities?; Paying Students for Good Grades; Notes; 13. The immoral preference objection ; The Argument; Do All Negative Predictions Corrupt?; Bets and the Instrumental Value of Life; All Things Considered Preferences; When Pricing the Priceless Ennobles; Conclusion; Notes |
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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 sacred. 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 |
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14. The low quality objection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-235) and index |
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Print version record |
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Exchange -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Value -- Philosophy
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Markets -- Social aspects.
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Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Markets -- Social aspects.
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Wirtschaftsethik
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jaworski, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781315818085 |
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1315818086 |
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