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Contested commodities range from labour to votes, to human organs, to parks and emissions. But in the context of a market economy, what defines them as contestable commodities? This volume draws together interdisciplinary research on the legitimate scope of markets and the goods that should be exempt therefrom.
List of contents
Introduction -
Vida Panitch and Elodie Bertrand Part 1: Commodification studies: past and present Chapter 1 Commodification: The traditional pro-market arguments -
Marie Daou and Alain Marciano Chapter 2 Classical anti-commodification arguments -
Nicolas Postel and Richard Sobel Chapter 3 Contemporary anti-commodification arguments: Market failures -
Elodie Bertrand Chapters 4 Contemporary anti-commodification arguments: Corruption, Inequality, and Justice -
Vida Panitch Chapter 5 Sociology of moral contestation of exchange institutions -
Philippe Steiner Part 2: A history of contested commodities Chapter 6 Land
- Pierre Crétois Chapter 7 Usury and simony -
Pierre Januard and André Lapidus Chapter 8 Labour -
François Vatin Chapter 9 Gambling -
Marie Trespeuch Chapter 10 Insurance
- Emily Nacol Part 3: Contested commodities and the state Chapter 11 Vote buying and campaign finance -
Jason Brennan and Christopher Freiman Chapter 12 Health care -
L. Chad Horne Chapter 13 Education -
Harry Brighouse Chapter 14 Security and prisons -
Jonathan Peterson Chapter 15 Cultural goods -
Michael Joel Kessler Chapter 16 Care work -
Jennifer Nedelsky Part 4: The body and intimacy as contested commodities Chapter 17 Human organs -
James Stacey Taylor Chapter 18 Blood and Plasma -
Peter M. Jaworski Chapter 19 Gametes -
Kimberley D. Krawiec Chapter 20 Contract sex -
Laurie J. Shrage Chapter 21 Surrogacy
- Stephen Wilkinson Chapter 22 Adoption -
Martha M. Ertman Part 5: Non-human nature and environment as contested commodities Chapter 23 Natural capital and biodiversity -
John O'Neill Chapter 24 Emission trading -
Nathalie Berta Chapter 25 Ecosystems -
Julia Martin-Ortega, Paula Novo, Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Roldan Muradian, Ciaran Harte, and M. Azahara Mesa-Jurado Chapter 26 Water -
Adrian Walsh Chapter 27 Animals -
Aksel Braanen Sterri Chapter 28 Seed -
Fabien Girard, Christine Frison, and Christine Noiville Chapter 29 Parks and forests -
Catherine Larrère
About the author
Elodie Bertrand is Associate Research Professor in economics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, ISJPS (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and CNRS, UMR 8103). She co-edited the
Elgar Companion to Ronald Coase (2016), and
The Limits of the Market: Commodification of Nature and Body (2020).
Vida Panitch is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Ethics and Public Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her research focuses on questions of commodification, exploitation, and distributive justice. She co-edited
Exploitation: from Theory to Practice (2017).
