Présentation

• Élodie Bertrand est chargée de recherche CNRS au sein de l’UMR Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne (ISJPS).
  Elle interviendra autour du Handbook of Commodification, coédité avec Vida Panitch (Routledge, 2024).

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy. For other goods, their commodification – their being made available in exchange for money, or their being subject to market valuation and exchange – is hotly contested. “Contested” commodities range from labour and land, to votes, healthcare, and education, to human organs, gametes, and intimate services, to parks and emissions. But in the context of a market economy, what distinguishes these goods as non-commodifiable, or what defines them as contestable commodities ? And why should their status as such justify restricting the market choices of rationally consenting parties to otherwise voluntary exchanges ?
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