Excerpted from the intro of chapter 5–perhaps my favorite chapter–of Against Democracy. “The instinct of worship is still so strong upon us that, having nearly worn out our capacity…
At Business Ethics Journal Review, Peter Jaworski and I respond to Daniel Layman’s attempt to critique our paper “Markets without Symbolic Limits”. Layman argues that to sell certain things “embodies” a morally…
Anti-commodification theorists often complain that putting certain things up for sale violates the meaning of those goods or expresses certain negative attitudes towards those goods. As part of our response,…