To pre\u00adsume that mar\u00adkets and mar\u00adket signals can best deter\u00admine all allo\u00adca\u00adtive deci\u00adsions is to pre\u00adsume that eve\u00adry\u00adthing can in prin\u00adciple be trea\u00adted as a com\u00admo\u00addi\u00adty. Commodification pre\u00adsumes the exis\u00adtence of pro\u00adper\u00adty rights over pro\u00adcesses, things, and social rela\u00adtions, that a price can be put on them, and that they can be tra\u00added sub\u00adject to legal contract. The mar\u00adket is pre\u00adsu\u00admed to work as an appro\u00adpriate guide \u2013 an ethic \u2013 for all human action. In prac\u00adtice, of course, eve\u00adry socie\u00adty sets some bounds on where com\u00admo\u00addi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion begins and ends. Where the boun\u00adda\u00adries lie is a mat\u00adter of conten\u00adtion. Certain drugs are dee\u00admed ille\u00adgal. The buying and sel\u00adling of sexual favours is out\u00adla\u00adwed in most US states, though elsew\u00adhere it may be lega\u00adli\u00adzed, decri\u00admi\u00adna\u00adli\u00adzed, and even state-regu\u00adla\u00adted as an indus\u00adtry. Pornography is broad\u00adly pro\u00adtec\u00adted as a form of free speech under US law although here, too, there are cer\u00adtain forms (main\u00adly concer\u00adning chil\u00addren) that are consi\u00adde\u00adred beyond the pale. In the US, conscience and honour are sup\u00adpo\u00adsed\u00adly not for sale, and there exists a curious pen\u00adchant to pur\u00adsue \u2018cor\u00adrup\u00adtion\u2019 as if it is easi\u00adly dis\u00adtin\u00adgui\u00adshable from the nor\u00admal prac\u00adtices of influence-pedd\u00adling and making money in the mar\u00adket\u00adplace. The com\u00admo\u00addi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of sexua\u00adli\u00adty, culture, his\u00adto\u00adry, heri\u00adtage ; of nature as spec\u00adtacle or as rest cure ; the extrac\u00adtion of mono\u00adpo\u00adly rents from ori\u00adgi\u00adna\u00adli\u00adty, authen\u00adti\u00adci\u00adty, and uni\u00adque\u00adness (of works or art, for example)\u2013\u2013these all amount to put\u00adting a price on things that were never actual\u00adly pro\u00addu\u00adced as com\u00admo\u00addi\u00adties. There is often disa\u00adgree\u00adment as to the appro\u00adpria\u00adte\u00adness of com\u00admo\u00addi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion (of reli\u00adgious events and sym\u00adbols, for example) or of who should exer\u00adcise the pro\u00adper\u00adty rights and derive the rents (over access to Aztec ruins or mar\u00adke\u00adting of Aboriginal art, for example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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