Contested Commodities

Name: Contested Commodities
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ISBN: 9780674007161

ISBN-10: 0674007166

ISBN-13: 9780674007161

Edition: 1996

Authors: Margaret Jane Radin

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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…

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List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Margaret Jane Radin is the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, emerita, at Stanford University. Radin is the author of "Reinterpreting Property" and "Contested Commodities".



Preface



Commodification as a Worldview



Market-Inalienability



Problems for the Idea of a Market Domain



Compartmentalization: Attempting to Delineate a Market Domain



Personhood and the Dialectic of Contextuality



Human Flourishing and Market Rhetoric



Incomplete Commodification



Conceptual Recapitulation



The Double Bind



Prostitution and Baby-Selling: Contested Commodification and Women's Capacities



Commodification, Objectification, and Subordination



Free Expression



Compensation



Democracy


Notes


Index