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050 00 $aHM211$b.R33 1996
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100 1 $aRadin, Margaret Jane.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93046623
245 10 $aContested commodities /$cMargaret Jane Radin.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c1996.
300 $axiv, 279 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-270) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tCommodification as a Worldview --$g2.$tMarket-Inalienability --$g3.$tProblems for the Idea of a Market Domain --$g4.$tCompartmentalization: Attempting to Delineate a Market Domain --$g5.$tPersonhood and the Dialectic of Contextuality --$g6.$tHuman Flourishing and Market Rhetoric --$g7.$tIncomplete Commodification --$g8.$tConceptual Recapitulation --$g9.$tThe Double Bind --$g10.$tProstitution and Baby-Selling: Contested Commodification and Women's Capacities --$g11.$tCommodification, Objectification, and Subordination --$g12.$tFree Expression --$g13.$tCompensation --$g14.$tDemocracy.
520 $aHow far should society go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services? Should they be able to treat such things as babies, body parts, and sex as commodities that can be traded in a free market? Should politics be thought of as just economics by another name? Margaret Jane Radin addresses these controversial issues in a detailed exploration of contested commodification.
520 8 $aEconomists, lawyers, policy analysts, and social theorists have been sharply divided between those who believe that commodifying some goods naturally tends to devalue them and those who believe that almost everything is legitimate grist for the market mill. In recent years, the free market position has been gaining strength. In this book, Radin provides a nuanced response to its sweeping generalization.
520 8 $aNot 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. Radio argues 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.
520 8 $aShe views this tension as primarily the result of underlying social and economic inequalities, which need not reflect an irreconcilable conflict in the premises of liberal democracy.
650 0 $aCommercial products$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aMarketing$xSocial aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107432
852 00 $bleh$hHM211$i.R33 1996