Description: Contested Commodities by Margaret Jane Radin How far should society go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services? Radin addresses this controversial issue in an exploration of contested commodification. As a philosophical pragmatist, the author argues for an incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under regulated circumstances. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Notes What does it say about us, and what does it do to us, when we talk about people as commodities to be traded in the market? Radins profound, subtle, and disturbing book asks how the texture of our human world may be altered by ways of speaking and thinking, apparently innocuous and nicely scientific, that we import from market economics and use to characterize non-market behavior. A distinguished writer about property law, Radin avoids facile answers and stresses the complexity of the issue. Nonetheless, she leaves her reader with a warning: the models we use shape the people we may become. One day we may find to our grief (or, worse still, lack of grief) that our intellectual inventions have reinvented our world. -- Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Professor Radin has brought very considerable intellectual courage and perspicacity to bear on one of the most vexing and central issues in any liberal, market-based society--where should the market (and market rhetoric) end, and politics begin in the allocation of scarce resources? Law and economics scholars, who more or less assume the virtues of the private market, in most contexts, will be especially challenged by Radins anlysis. Her book is also beautifully written and displays an elegance and lucidity that is absent in much modern legal scholarship. -- Michael J. Trebilcock, University of Toronto At a time when belief in markets is ascendant throughout the world, Contested Commodities challenges--at the most fundamental level--the very idea of exchanging things for money. Margaret Jane Radins arguments are subtle and nuanced, and her central claim about the potentially dehumanizing effects of exchange is powerful and important. No one in recent decades has made this case against the dominance of markets as well as Radin. -- David Strauss, University of Chicago Author Biography Margaret Jane Radin is Professor of Law at Stanford University. Review Radins book is both complex in structure and highly nuanced in argument. Essentially it is a critique of existing theories of commodification that develops a distinctive approach to understanding commodification...Radin, like liberal political theorists, seeks a middle way between universalized commodification and universalized noncommodification, instead of a thesis of compartmentalized commodification she offers a thesis of incomplete commodification...[An] insightful and rewarding book. -- Deryck Beyleveld * Journal of Law and Society *In this thought-provoking book Margaret Jane Radin asks us to consider whether there are some areas of social life which should be off-limits to the market, and whether some human interactions should be exempted from market-style forms of description and analysis. Although Radin is not the first theorist to address these issues, her eloquently written book contains some of the most sophisticated treatment they have received thus far. She convincingly makes the point that unless we transcend those models of human behaviour which characterize all human interactions as market exchanges, we may find ourselves unable to engage in the forms of valuing required for the maintenance and promotion of a humane society...The book represents a significant contribution to debate about the role of markets and market ideology in modern democratic polities. Future discussions of these issues will undoubtedly be influenced by Radins work. -- A. J. Walsh * Philosophical Quarterly *Margaret Radin asks, why not put everything up for sale? Her answer is that doing so would impair human flourishing by compromising the social contexts needed for personhood. She offers a general approach to determining the ethical limits of markets and shows how it works in cases ranging from organ sales, prostitution, and commercial surrogate motherhood to the free marketplace of ideas, compensation in torts, and public choice theories of democracy. Radins contributions to this controversy are consistently illuminating and through provoking...For anyone interested in the ethical limitations of markets, this book is required reading. -- Elizabeth Anderson * Ethics *What does it say about us, and what does it do to us, when we talk about people as commodities to be traded in the market? Radins profound, subtle, and disturbing book asks how the texture of our human world may be altered by ways of speaking and thinking, apparently innocuous and nicely scientific, that we import from market economics and use to characterize non-market behavior. A distinguished writer about property law, Radin avoids facile answers and stresses the complexity of the issue. Nonetheless, she leaves her reader with a warning: the models we use shape the people we may become. One day we may find to our grief (or, worse still, lack of grief) that our intellectual inventions have reinvented our world. -- Martha Nussbaum, University of ChicagoProfessor Radin has brought very considerable intellectual courage and perspicacity to bear on one of the most vexing and central issues in any liberal, market-based society--where should the market (and market rhetoric) end, and politics begin in the allocation of scarce resources? Law and economics scholars, who more or less assume the virtues of the private market, in most contexts, will be especially challenged by Radins anlysis. Her book is also beautifully written and displays an elegance and lucidity that is absent in much modern legal scholarship. -- Michael J. Trebilcock, University of TorontoAt a time when belief in markets is ascendant throughout the world, Contested Commodities challenges--at the most fundamental level--the very idea of exchanging things for money. Margaret Jane Radins arguments are subtle and nuanced, and her central claim about the potentially dehumanizing effects of exchange is powerful and important. No one in recent decades has made this case against the dominance of markets as well as Radin. -- David Strauss, University of Chicago Promotional What does it say about us, and what does it do to us, when we talk about people as commodities to be traded in the market? Radins profound, subtle, and disturbing book asks how the texture of our human world may be altered by ways of speaking and thinking, apparently innocuous and nicely scientific, that we import from market economics and use to characterize non-market behavior. A distinguished writer about property law, Radin avoids facile answers and stresses the complexity of the issue. Nonetheless, she leaves her reader with a warning: the models we use shape the people we may become. One day we may find to our grief (or, worse still, lack of grief) that our intellectual inventions have reinvented our world. -- Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago Professor Radin has brought very considerable intellectual courage and perspicacity to bear on one of the most vexing and central issues in any liberal, market-based society--where should the market (and market rhetoric) end, and politics begin in the allocation of scarce resources? Law and economics scholars, who more or less assume the virtues of the private market, in most contexts, will be especially challenged by Radins anlysis. Her book is also beautifully written and displays an elegance and lucidity that is absent in much modern legal scholarship. -- Michael J. Trebilcock, University of Toronto At a time when belief in markets is ascendant throughout the world, Contested Commodities challenges--at the most fundamental level--the very idea of exchanging things for money. Margaret Jane Radins arguments are subtle and nuanced, and her central claim about the potentially dehumanizing effects of exchange is powerful and important. No one in recent decades has made this case against the dominance of markets as well as Radin. -- David Strauss, University of Chicago Review Quote What does it say about us, and what does it do to us, when we talk about people as commodities to be traded in the market? Radins profound, subtle, and disturbing book asks how the texture of our human world may be altered by ways of speaking and thinking, apparently innocuous and nicely scientific, that we import from market economics and use to characterize non-market behavior. A distinguished writer about property law, Radin avoids facile answers and stresses the complexity of the issue. Nonetheless, she leaves her reader with a warning: the models we use shape the people we may become. One day we may find to our grief (or, worse still, lack of grief) that our intellectual inventions have reinvented our world. Details ISBN0674007166 Author Margaret Jane Radin Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674007166 ISBN-13 9780674007161 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2001 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle The Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Arts and Other Things Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Short Title CONTESTED COMMODITIES REV/E Edition Description Revised Pages 296 Illustrations none DOI 10.1604/9780674007161 UK Release Date 2001-11-05 AU Release Date 2001-11-05 NZ Release Date 2001-11-05 US Release Date 2001-11-05 Publication Date 2001-11-05 DEWEY 343.7308 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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ISBN-13: 9780674007161
Book Title: Contested Commodities
Item Height: 235mm
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Author: Margaret Jane Radin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Medicine, Popular Philosophy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2001
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Item Weight: 467g
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
