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Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale

The Moral Limits of Markets

  • Paperback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious-markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? 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? Satz contends that categories previously used by philosophers and economists are of limited use in addressing such markets because they are assumed 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. Nobel Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow calls this book "a work that will have to be studied and taken account of by all those concerned by the role of the market as compared with other social mechanisms."
Why Some Things Should Not be for Sale and Women in Western Political Thought
Women in Western Political ThoughtWhy Some Things Should Not be for Sale
  • Author

    Debra Satz

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2012

  • Weight

    364g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199892617

  • ISBN-10

    019989261X

  • Eden Code

    4564516

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