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Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories. This account of the plurality of values thus offers a new approach, beyond welfare economics and traditional theories of justice, for assessing the ethical limitations of the market. In this light, Anderson discusses several contemporary controversies involving the proper scope of the market, including commercial surrogate motherhood, privatization of public services, and the application of cost-benefit analysis to issues of environmental protection.

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• Preface
• 1 A Pluralist Theory of Value
• A Rational Attitude Theory of Value
• Ideals and Self-Assessment
• How Goods Differ in Kind (I): Different Modes of Valuation
• How Goods Differ in Kind (II): Social Relations of Realization
• 2 An Expressive Theory of Rational Action
• Value and Rational Action
• The Framing of Decisions
• The Extrinsic Value of States of Affairs
• Consequentialism
• Practical Reason and the Unity of the Self
• 3 Pluralism and Incommensurable Goods
• The Advantages of Consequentialism
• A Pragmatic Theory of Comparative Value Judgments
• Incommensurable Goods
• Rational Choice among Incommensurable Goods
• 4 Self-Understanding, the Hierarchy of Values, and Moral Constraints
• The Test of Self-Understanding
• The Hierarchy of Values
• Agent-Centered Restrictions
• Hybrid Consequentialism
• A Self-Effacing Theory of Practical Reason?
• 5 Criticism, Justification, and Common Sense
• A Pragmatic Account of Objectivity
• The Thick Conceptual Structure of the Space of Reasons
• How Common Sense Can Be Self-Critical
• Why We Should Ignore Skeptical Challenges to Common Sense
• 6 Monistic Theories of Value
• Monism
• Moore's Aesthetic Monism
• Hedonism
• Rational Desire Theory
• 7 The Ethical Limitations of the Market
• Pluralism, Freedom, and Liberal Politics
• The Ideals and Social Relations of the Modern Market
• Civil Society and the Market
• Personal Relations and the Market
• Political Goods and the Market
• The Limitations of Market Ideologies
• 8 Is Women's Labor a Commodity?
• The Case of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood
• Children as Commodities
• Women's Labor as a Commodity
• Contract Pregnancy and the Status of Women
• Contract Pregnancy, Freedom, and the Law
• 9

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Anderson (Univ. of Michigan) uses the question "Why not put everything up for sale?" in order to explore the ethical limitations of the market. She criticizes the social thinness and barrenness of the human psychology that is presupposed by much social and political theory, and she defends a moral pluralism that recognizes differences in kinds (not just amounts) of value. Anderson defends a pragmatic account of evaluative objectivity, one that takes seriously thick evaluative concepts and rejects demands for some ontological underwriting of our intuitions (such as objective normative facts that can be characterized independent of our concerns). Anderson considers theoretical issues connected with the concepts of value, rationality, objectivity, freedom, autonomy, and others, and she also examines particular issues concerned with commercial surrogate motherhood, workplace safety, the environment, etc. Her account is insightful and carefully reasoned. Suitable for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. S. Satris; Clemson University

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Elizabeth Anderson is John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies; John Rawls Collegiate Professor; and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.