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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 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.
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Margaret Jane Radin is Professor of Law at Stanford University.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0674166973
- ISBN 13 9780674166974
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages296
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Contested Commodities. The Trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts, and Other Things [subtitle from dust jacket]
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. How far should society go in allowing people to buy & sell goods & services? Should babies, body parts & sex be treated as other commodities to be traded in a free market? Controversial issues indeed. In the face of an expanding free market, the author explores the commification issue, balancing the liberal democratic ideal of personal choice against the need to protect the individual. human rights and to respect humanity. Radin is Professor of Law at Stanford University. Tan cloth with black titling on spine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 296 pages with extensive notes and index. Slight edge wear. Seller Inventory # 002304
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