{"product_id":"9780367758851-markets-without-limits","title":"Markets without Limits","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMoral Virtues and Commercial Interests\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this expanded second edition, Brennan and Jaworski argue that markets are not given a fair hearing. Their core argument is that the market does not introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, if you may do it for free, you may do it for money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMay you sell your spare kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? May spouses pay each other to do the dishes, watch the kids, or have sex? Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? May you ever sell your vote?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost people—and many philosophers—shudder at these questions. To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is \u003ci\u003ecommodified\u003c\/i\u003e, then nothing is sacred. The market corrodes our character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this expanded second edition of \u003ci\u003eMarkets without Limits\u003c\/i\u003e, Jason Brennan and Peter M. Jaworski say it is now past time to give markets a fair hearing. The market does not, the authors claim, introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a simple answer: if you may do it for free, you may do it for money. Contrary to the conservative consensus, Brennan and Jaworski claim there are no inherent limits to \u003ci\u003ewhat \u003c\/i\u003ecan be bought and sold, but only restrictions on \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003ewe buy and sell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKey Updates and Revisions to the \u003ci\u003eSecond Edition:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes revised introductory chapters to further clarify what’s at stake in the commodification debate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides easier-to-follow chapters on semiotic objections, stronger analyses of these objections, and more evidence of these objections’ widespread pervasiveness. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers cogent responses to several recent papers that have raised counterexamples to the authors’ thesis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes new empirical evidence on the ways markets sometimes \u003ci\u003ecrowd in\u003c\/i\u003e virtue and altruism.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnalyzes the topics of blackmail and \"associative\" objections to markets.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes new material on issues surrounding exploitation and coercion, selling citizenship, residency rights, and arguments about \"dignity\" as objections to markets. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434659066230,"sku":"9780367758851","price":49.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27928900.jpg?v=1760337983","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367758851-markets-without-limits","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}