What Should Not Be For Sale?

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If you live in the worlds of financial markets and economics, sometimes it can be hard to remember that not all of life can be neatly packaged into data points and lists of pros and cons. And Nobel-Prize-winning-economist and Stanford professor Al Roth is pretty convincing that markets are Good, and that, if you think it through, we *should* allow some kind of market in the trade of *some* human organs. But across the Stanford campus, philosopher Debra Satz says those frameworks are missing things, important things. She wrote a book that suggests that some things simply should not be for sale. That book is called Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale. We needed remedial help remembering why some things should not be for sale. What things, exactly? And why? Further Reading Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Debra Satz Organs, Sex Work, and Drugs: A Nobel Economist on Why Banning Things Can Backfire, Mary in America Subscribe to the show! YouTube Instagram TikTok Website