Contested Commodities Margaret Jane Radin

Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Margaret Radin observes, but some desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades abhorrent. Radin argues that such areas of contested commodification reflect a persistent dilemma in liberal society: we value freedom of choice and simultaneously believe that choices should be restricted to protect the integrity of what it means to be a person. She views this tension as 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, Radin presents 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. "In this thought-provoking book ... [Radin] convincingly makes the point that unless we transcend those models of human behavior 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." --A. J. Walsh, Philosophical Quarterly Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Contested Commodities (Margaret Jane Radin)