Commodification and Its Discontents

by Nicholas Abercrombie

Book Overview

Should human organs be bought and sold? Is it right that richer people should be able to pay poorer people to wait in a queue for them? Should objects in museums ever be sold? The assumption underlying such questions is that there are things that should not be bought and sold because it would give them a financial value that would replace some other, and dearly held, human value. Those who ask questions of this kind often fear that the replacement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509529829
• ISBN13: 9781509529827
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"