The Routledge Handbook of Commodification

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-03740-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 458 Seiten, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 174 mm, Gewicht: 802 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy. For other goods, their commodification – their being made available in exchange for money, or their being subject to market valuation and exchange – is hotly contested. “Contested” commodities range from labour and land, to votes, healthcare, and education, to human organs, gametes, and intimate services, to parks and emissions. But in the context of a market economy, what distinguishes these goods as non-commodifiable, or what defines them as contestable commodities? And why should their status as such justify restricting the market choices of rationally consenting parties to otherwise voluntary exchanges?

This volume draws together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research on the legitimate scope of markets and the kinds of goods that should be exempt therefrom. In bringing diverse answers to this question together for the first time, it finally identifies commodification studies as a unique field of scholarly research in its own right. In so doing, it fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, advances scholarship, and enhances education in this controversial, important, and growing field of research. Contemporary theorists who examine this question do so from across the disciplinary spectrum and ground their answers in diverse scholarly literature and divergent methodological approaches. Their arguments will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, economics, law, political science, sociology, policy, feminist theory, and ecology, among others.

The contributors to this volume take diverse and divergent positions on the benefits of markets in general and on the possible harms of specific contested markets in particular. While some favour free markets and others regulation or prohibition, and while some engage in more normative and others in more empirical analysis, the contributors all advance nuanced and thoughtful arguments that engage deeply with the complex set of moral and empirical questions at the heart of commodification studies. This volume collects their new and provocative work together for the first time.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertrand, Elodie

Panitch, Vida

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Mikroökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).