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010			_a 2020012847
020			_a9781509529827 (paperback)
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020			_a1509529810 (hardback)
020			_a9781509529810 (hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1145897105
050			_aHB72 _b.A247 2020
100	1		_aAbercrombie, Nicholas.
245	1	0	_aCommodification and its discontents / _cNicholas Abercrombie.
260			_aCambridge, U.K. : _bPolity Press, _c2020.
300			_aviii, 198 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [171]-185) and index.
505	0		_a1. 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?
520			_a"Should anything and everything be bought and sold?"
520			_aShould 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.
650		4	_aEconomics _xMoral and ethical aspects.
650		4	_aEconomics _xSociological aspects.
650		4	_aValue.
650		4	_aCommodification.
650		4	_aCapitalism.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAbercrombie, Nicholas. _tCommodification and its discontents _dCambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020. _z9781509529834 _w(DLC) 2020012848
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