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How far should society go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services? Should they be able to treat such things as babies, body parts, and sex as commodities that can be traded in a free market? Should politics be thought of as just economics by another name? Margaret Jane Radin addresses these controversial issues in a detailed exploration of contested commodification. Economists, lawyers, policy analysts, and social theorists have been sharply divided between those who believe that commodifying some goods naturally tends to devalue them and those who believe that almost everything is legitimate grist for the market mill. In recent years, the free market position has been gaining strength. In this book, Radin provides a nuanced response to its sweeping generalization. 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. Radio argues 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 inequalities, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the premises of liberal democracy.
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- Title Contested Commodities
- Author Margaret Jane Radin
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Date 2001-11-05
- ISBN 9780674007161 / 0674007166
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.68 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.73 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.3
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