Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale
Subtitle: On the Limits of Markets
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780195311594
Subjects: Foreign Exchange; Business & Economics / Foreign Exchange; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics
Description: "Markets are important forms of social and economic organization. They allow vast numbers of people, most of whom never meet, to cooperate together in a system of voluntary exchange... The noted philosopher Debra Satz takes a skeptical view of markets, pointing out that free markets are not always a force for good. The idea of free exchange of child labor, human organs, reproductive services, weapons, life saving medicines, and addictive drugs, strike many as toxic to human values. She asks: What considerations ought to guide the debates about such markets? ...Satz develops a broader and more nuanced view of markets whereby they not only allocate resources and incomes, but shape our culture, foster or thwart human development, and create and support structures of power--Provided by publisher.