{"product_id":"contested-commodities-9780674166974","title":"Contested Commodities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContested Commodities\u003c\/strong\u003e by Radin, Margaret Jane. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780674166974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot 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.\nAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44425933520949,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674166973","price":226.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674166974_c2bd061b-21d5-444c-b7b0-b4eff0033e8a.jpg?v=1781147381","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/contested-commodities-9780674166974","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}