Markets and Morals: Justifying Kidney Sales and Legalizing Prostitution

ISBN-13: 9781316646571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 220 str.

Yew-Kwang Ng

Opis

Considering efficiency, equality, and morality, the book argues for qualified market expansion, particularly in legalizing kidney sales and prostitution.

Recenzje

'Yew-Kwang Ng has one of the most original minds that I have ever encountered. In this stimulating and highly readable book, Ng puts his mind to the task of puncturing many of the shibboleths that have been put forward against the use of markets to allocate goods and services like human organs and sexual favors. Ng is a hard-wired utilitarian, and illustrates in this excellent book how the utilitarian perspective can shed much-needed light on the morality of using market exchange in controversial situations such as these. Anyone who has been troubled by the extension of markets into these areas should read this book.' Dennis C. Mueller, Universität Wien

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The well-known case of lateness fees; 3. Extending economic analysis; 4. The anti-market sentiment; 5. The inequality/exploitation case against commodification is invalid; 6. Repugnance? Similar to 'honour' killing; 7. Crowding out or crowding in?; 8. Market expansion is a mark of progress; 9. The case for legalising kidney sales; 10. Making presumed consent the default option; 11. Blood donation; 12. Prostitution Yan Wang and Yew-Kwang Ng; 13. Conscription; 14. Profiteering; 15. Water: a typical case of under-pricing; 16. Fines, imprisonment, or whipping?; 17. Some specific areas; 18. Concluding remarks.