Markets Without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests Brennan Jason

May you sell your spare kidney? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children?

Should we allow the rich to genetically engineer gifted, beautiful children? May spouses pay each other to do the dishes, watch the kids, or have sex? May you ever sell your vote?Most people--and many philosophers--shudder at these questions.

To put some goods and services for sale offends human dignity. If everything is commodified, then nothing is sacred. The market corrodes our character.In this expanded second edition of Markets without Limits, Jason Brennan and Peter M.

Jaworski say it is now past time to give markets a fair hearing. The market does not, the authors claim, introduce wrongness where there was not any previously. Thus, the question of what rightfully may be bought and sold has a