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Wetenschap is ook maar een mening : harde feiten bij 25 politieke kwesties
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ISBN: 9491481010 9789491481017 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam : Oostenwind,

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Bespreking van enkele actuele maatschappelijke kwesties met een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde visie op de oplossingen die politici daarvoor aandragen.


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African perspectives - [South] Africa : city, society, space, literature and architecture
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ISBN: 9789064507977 906450797X Year: 2012 Volume: 7 Publisher: Rotterdam 010 Publishers


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Why some things should not be for sale : the moral limits of markets.
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ISBN: 9780195311594 9780199892617 019989261X 1282544225 9786612544224 0199718571 0195311590 0199870713 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Oxford university press

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What's wrong with markets in everything? Markets today are widely recognized as the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. And with the collapse of communism and rise of globalization, it's no surprise that markets and the political theories supporting them have seen a considerable resurgence. For many, markets are an all-purpose remedy for the deadening effects of bureaucracy and state control. But what about those markets we might label noxious-markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex, weapons, child labor, or human organs? Such markets arouse widespread discomfort and often revulsion. In Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, philosopher Debra Satz takes a penetrating look at those commodity exchanges that strike most of us as problematic. What considerations, she asks, ought to guide the debates about such markets? What is it about a market involving prostitution or the sale of kidneys that makes it morally objectionable? How is a market in weapons or pollution different than a market in soybeans or automobiles? Are laws and social policies banning the more noxious markets necessarily the best responses to them?Satz contends that categories previously used by philosophers and economists are of limited utility in addressing such questions because they have assumed markets to be homogenous. Accordingly, she offers a broader and more nuanced view of markets-one that goes beyond the usual discussions of efficiency and distributional equality-to show how markets shape our culture, foster or thwart human development, and create and support structures of power. An accessibly written work that will engage not only philosophers but also political scientists, economists, legal scholars, and public policy experts, this book is a significant contribution to ongoing discussions about the place of markets in a democratic society.

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