Contested Commodities - Couverture souple

Radin, Margaret Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674007166 ISBN 13 : 9780674007161

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Margaret Jane Radin is Professor of Law at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0674007166
• ISBN 13: 9780674007161
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible