Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-531159-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Oxford Political Philosophy

What's wrong with markets in everything? Markets today are widely recognized as the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. And with the collapse of communism and rise of globalization, it's no surprise that markets and the political theories supporting them have seen a considerable resurgence. For many, markets are an all-purpose remedy for the deadening effects of bureaucracy and state control. But what about those markets we might label noxious-markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex, weapons, child labor, or human organs? Such markets arouse widespread discomfort and often revulsion.
In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, philosopher Debra Satz takes a penetrating look at those commodity exchanges that strike most of us as problematic. What considerations, she asks, ought to guide the debates about such markets? What is it about a market involving prostitution or the sale of kidneys that makes it morally objectionable? How is a market in weapons or pollution different than a market in soybeans or automobiles? Are laws and social policies banning the more noxious markets necessarily the best responses to them? Satz contends that categories previously used by philosophers and economists are of limited utility in addressing such questions because they have assumed markets to be homogenous. Accordingly, she offers a broader and more nuanced view of markets-one that goes beyond the usual discussions of efficiency and distributional equality--to show how markets shape our culture, foster or thwart human development, and create and support structures of power.
An accessibly written work that will engage not only philosophers but also political scientists, economists, legal scholars, and public policy experts, this book is a significant contribution to ongoing discussions about the place of markets in a democratic society.

Zielgruppe

General readers and students interested in philosophy, ethics and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Satz

Satz, Debra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I
Chapter One: What Do Markets Do?

Part II
Chapter Two: The Changing Visions of Economics
Chapter Three: The Market's Place and Scope in Contemporary Egalitarian Political Theory
Chapter Four: Noxious Markets

Part III
Chapter Five: Markets in Women's Reproductive Labor
Chapter Six: Markets in Women's Sexual Labor
Chapter Seven: Child Labor: A Normative Perspective
Chapter Eight: Voluntary Slavery and the Limits of the Market
Chapter Nine: Ethical Issues in The Supply and Demand of Human Kidneys

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Satz, Debra
Debra Satz, Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, Stanford University

Debra Satz Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University