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Brennan, Jason

Markets Without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests - New York Routledge 2016 - 239p

Part I: Should Everything Be for Sale?
1. Are There Some Things Money Should Not Buy?
2. If You May Do It For Free, You May Do It For Money
3. What the Debate Is and Is Not About
4. It’s the How, Not the What

Part II: Do Markets Signal Disrespect?
5. Semiotic Objections
6. The Mere Commodity Objection
7. The Wrong Signal and Wrong Currency Objections
8. Objections: Semiotic Essentialism and Minding Our Manners

Part III: Do Markets Corrupt?
9. The Corruption Objection
10. How to Make a Sound Corruption Objection
11. The Selfishness Objection
12. The Crowding Out Objection
13. The Immoral Preference Objection
14. The Low Quality Objection
15. The Civics Objection

Part IV: Exploitation, Harm to Self, and Misallocation
16. Essential and Incidental Objections
17. Line Up For Expensive Equality!
18. Baby Buying
19. Vote Selling

Part V: Debunking Intuitions
20. Anti-Market Attitudes Are Resilient
21. Where Do Anti-Market Attitudes Come From?
22. The Pseudo-Morality of Disgust
23. Postscripto

ISBN: 9780415737357

Subjects--Personal Names:
Value - Philosophy
Economics - Moral and Ethical Aspects

Dewey Class. No.: 174.4 / BRE