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Dagan on Carruthers & Anderson on Commodification

By Lawrence Solum

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Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law) has posted Commodification Without Money
on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
    The classic commodification critique associates commodification with the introduction of money, or at least with the introduction of markets into relationships, blaming monetary evaluation ("price-tagging") for flattening human interaction. In a recent paper Bruce Carruthers has enriched the discussion of money and commodification by complicating the implications of using money. In this paper, I take up the flipside of the "money equals commodification" equation arguing that commodification can exist absent money.

    My claim is based on Elizabeth Anderson's understanding of the problems in commodification as facilitating unidimentional systems of evaluation which deprive people of the variety of choices available to them when operating in a multiple-spheres environment. Understood abstractly, as crossing spheres (and thus undermining them), commodificatory concerns do not have to include money or even markets, as long as they limit our capacity to evaluate people, things, and relationships under multiple spheres. To demonstrate this claim, I focus on one particular regime - governmental regulation - and argue that introducing governmental regulation into personal spheres entails commodification.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).

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