Contested Commodities(1st Edition)

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Margaret Jane Radin

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ISBN: 0674166973, 978-0674166974

Book publisher: Harvard University Press

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Book Price $0 : 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. Radin Observes 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 Inequality, Which Need Not Reflect An Irreconcilable Conflict In The Premises Of Liberal Democracy. As A Philosophical Pragmatist, The Author Therefore Argues For A Conception Of Incomplete Commodification, In Which Some Contested Things Can Be Bought And Sold, But Only Under Carefully Regulated Circumstances. Such A Regulatory Regime Both Symbolizes The Importance Of Nonmarket Value To Personhood And Aspires To Ameliorate The Underlying Conditions Of Inequality.