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1. Business Ethics Journal Review: Volume > 4 > Issue: 1
Daniel Layman Expressive Objections to Markets: Normative, Not Symbolic: A Commenatary on Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski (2015), “Markets without Symbolic Limits”
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Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski reject expressive objections to markets on the grounds that (1) market symbolism is culturally contingent, and (2) contingent cultural symbols are less important than the benefits markets offer. I grant (1) and (2), but I deny that these points suffice as grounds to dismiss expressive critiques of markets. For many plausible expressive critiques of markets are not symbolic critiques at all. Rather, they are critiques grounded in the idea that some market transactions embody morally inappropriate normative stances toward the goods or services on offer.