02470cam a2200349 i 4500 on1145897105 OCoLC ta 210616s2020 enk b 001 0 eng 2020012847 9781509529827 (paperback) 1509529829 (paperback) 1509529810 (hardback) 9781509529810 (hardback) (OCoLC)1145897105 HB72 .A247 2020 Abercrombie, Nicholas. Commodification and its discontents / Nicholas Abercrombie. Cambridge, U.K. : Polity Press, 2020. viii, 198 p. Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-185) and index. 1. Money Talk -- Part One: Case-Studies -- 2. Land -- 3. Bodies -- 4. Books -- Part Two: Resistance to Commodification -- 5. Sacredness and Property -- 6. Moral Regulation -- 7. Moral Climate, Ideology and Intellectuals -- 8. Moral Complexity -- References? "Should anything and everything be bought and sold?" 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 of human by money values - a process of commodification - is sweeping all before it. However, as Nicholas Abercrombie argues, commodification can be, and has been, resisted by the development of a moral climate that defines certain things as outside a market. That resistance, however, is never complete because the two regimes of value - human and money - are both necessary for the sustainability of society. His analysis of these processes offers a thought-provoking read that will appeal to students and scholars interested in market capitalism and culture. Economics Moral and ethical aspects. Economics Sociological aspects. Value. Commodification. Capitalism. Online version: Abercrombie, Nicholas. Commodification and its discontents Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020. 9781509529834 (DLC) 2020012848 lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HB72 .A247 2020 PNLIB21062725 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2912 2912