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5 - Justice and the Market

from Part I - On the Virtues of Public Provision (Agency-Based Approaches)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2021

Avihay Dorfman
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Alon Harel
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Some things should not be for sale. One’s body or one’s children, to take the most glaring examples. But, arguably, more trivial things like the family heirloom or a citizen’s vote should also not be bought and sold. Theorists differ both about the membership of this class (what things should not be for sale) and about the grounds for membership in it (why they should not be bought and sold). Yet there is virtual unanimity that it is not an empty set. Human beings, if nothing else, should not be sold on the market, not even by themselves (selling oneself into slavery).

In recent years, an expansive literature has been produced analyzing the moral limits of markets, focusing on the question just presented: what kinds of goods should not be bought and sold on the market.

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Print publication year: 2021

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