Markets Without Limits : Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests (Paperback)

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? 1. Semiotic Objections 2. The Mere Commodity Objection 3. The Wrong Signal and Wrong Currency Objections 4. Objections: Semiotic Essentialism and Minding Our Manners Part III: Do Markets Corrupt? 1. The Corruption Objection 2. How to Make a Sound Corruption Objection 3. The Selfishness Objection 4. The Crowding Out Objection 5. The Immoral Preference Objection 6. The Low Quality Objection 7. The Civics Objection Part IV: Exploitation, Harm to Self, and Misallocation 1. Essential and Incidental Objections 2. Line Up For Expensive Equality! 3. Baby Buying 4. Vote Buying Part V: Debunking Intuitions 1. Anti-Market Attitudes Are Resilient 2. Where Do Anti-Market Attitudes Come From? 3. The Pseudo-Morality of Disgust 4. Postscript