Title:
Markets without limits : moral virtues and commercial interests / Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski.
Author:
Brennan, Jason, 1979-
Jaworski, Peter.
Publication Information:
New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Call Number:
HB72 .M24725 2016
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780415737357
Physical Description:
xi, 239 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Should Everything Be for Sale?. Are there some things money should not buy? -- If you may do it for free, you may do it for money -- What the commodification debate is and is not about -- It's the how, not the what -- Do Markets Signal Disrespect?. Semiotic objections -- The mere commodity objection -- The wrong signal and wrong currency objections -- Objections : semiotic essentialism and minding our manners -- Do Markets Corrupt?. The corruption objection -- How to make a sound corruption objection -- The selfishness objection -- The crowding out objection -- The immoral preference objection -- The low quality objection -- The civics objection -- Exploitation, Harm to Self, and Misallocation. Essential and incidental objections -- Line up for expensive equality! -- Baby buying -- Vote selling -- Debunking Intuitions. Anti-market attitudes are resilient -- Where do anti-market attitudes come from? -- The pseudo-morality of disgust -- Postscript.
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