Markets and morals : justifying kidney sales and legalizing prostitution
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Markets and morals : justifying kidney sales and legalizing prostitution
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : hardback
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-199) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Considering efficiency, equality, and morality, this book argues for qualified market expansion, particularly in legalizing kidney sales and prostitution. Legalizing prostitution will benefit both men and women, as argued in a chapter jointly written with Yan Wang. Blood donation without monetary compensation can still result in adequate blood supply if schools educate children that blood donation can actually benefit a donor's health. As a society becomes more advanced, with higher incomes and a better educated populace, more activities can be subject to market exchange, with gradual popular acceptance. Without serious misinformation and irrationality, inequality/fairness as such cannot be a valid reason for limiting the scope of the market. The book supports the use of markets to increase efficiency while also increasing the effort to promote equality, making all income groups better off.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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