Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I On the Virtues of Public Provision (Agency-Based Approaches)
- 1 The Wrong of Privatization: A Kantian Account
- 2 Privatization, Efficiency, and the Distribution of Economic Power
- 3 Public and Private Ownership in Plato and Aristotle
- 4 Privatizing Criminal Punishment: What Is at Stake?
- 5 Justice and the Market
- 6 Outsourcing Border Control: Public Agency and Action in Migration
- 7 The Moral Neutrality of Privatization as Such
- Part II On the Virtues of Publicness as a Means to the Realization of Procedural Values (Process-Based Theories)
- Part III Outcome-Based Theories: On the Virtues and Vices of Public Provision as a Means to Promote Efficiency and Justice
- Index
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
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I On the Virtues of Public Provision (Agency-Based Approaches)
- 1 The Wrong of Privatization: A Kantian Account
- 2 Privatization, Efficiency, and the Distribution of Economic Power
- 3 Public and Private Ownership in Plato and Aristotle
- 4 Privatizing Criminal Punishment: What Is at Stake?
- 5 Justice and the Market
- 6 Outsourcing Border Control: Public Agency and Action in Migration
- 7 The Moral Neutrality of Privatization as Such
- Part II On the Virtues of Publicness as a Means to the Realization of Procedural Values (Process-Based Theories)
- Part III Outcome-Based Theories: On the Virtues and Vices of Public Provision as a Means to Promote Efficiency and Justice
- Index
Summary
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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