http://madisonian.net/2006/07/18/anti-commodification-principles-as-egalitarian-leverage/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Thu, 10 May 2012 20:32:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://madisonian.net/2006/07/18/anti-commodification-principles-as-egalitarian-leverage/comment-page-1/#comment-60743 madisonian.net » Facts and Values in Political Debates Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:39:52 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=707#comment-60743 [...] There’s been a spirited discussion of one of my posts here. (Okay, “spirited debate” is my euphemism for “clobbering”). I’d like to get some sense of why we’re so deeply divided. For now, I’m turning to this article, which tries to disentangle individuals’ value priorities from factual judgments. (Yes, I admit, it’s experimental philosophy, which I usually find less than helpful). [...] [...] There’s been a spirited discussion of one of my posts here. (Okay, “spirited debate” is my euphemism for “clobbering”). I’d like to get some sense of why we’re so deeply divided. For now, I’m turning to this article, which tries to disentangle individuals’ value priorities from factual judgments. (Yes, I admit, it’s experimental philosophy, which I usually find less than helpful). [...]

]]> http://madisonian.net/2006/07/18/anti-commodification-principles-as-egalitarian-leverage/comment-page-1/#comment-60585 TRUTH ON THE MARKET » Organ Markets, Social Justice, and the Poor: A Reply to Professor Pasquale Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:22:49 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=707#comment-60585 [...] Frank Pasquale at Madisonian is concerned that organ markets do not show enough concern for the poor. He writes: I’d be more sympathetic to the economic approach to the topic if it showed a bit more concern for the plight of those unable to pay for organs (and for the very poor in LDC’s whose organs are most likely to be utilized). There are many ways to do so: Steven Calandrillo’s approach to the topic is one of the best current treatments that injects concerns of social justice into the organ shortage crisis. In short, I think I’d be ready for an organ market if one were to tax all the transactions to assure wider access to the less advantaged. [...] [...] Frank Pasquale at Madisonian is concerned that organ markets do not show enough concern for the poor. He writes: I’d be more sympathetic to the economic approach to the topic if it showed a bit more concern for the plight of those unable to pay for organs (and for the very poor in LDC’s whose organs are most likely to be utilized). There are many ways to do so: Steven Calandrillo’s approach to the topic is one of the best current treatments that injects concerns of social justice into the organ shortage crisis. In short, I think I’d be ready for an organ market if one were to tax all the transactions to assure wider access to the less advantaged. [...]

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