Wempe Ben, Frooman Jeff
1Department of Business-Society Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 4400, Fredericton, NB E3B 4C4 Canada.
J Bus Ethics. 2018;153(1):1-15. doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3346-9. Epub 2016 Oct 19.
What should and what should not be for sale in a society? This is the central question in the Moral Limits of Markets (MLM) debate, which is conducted by a group of business ethicists and liberal egalitarian political theorists. These MLM theorists, which we will dub 'market moralists,' all put forward a specific version of the argument that while the market is well suited to allocate some categories of goods and services, it is undesirable for the allocation of other such categories. We argue that the current MLM debate is too much framed in terms of a market/non-market dichotomy. Moreover, authors tend to distinguish insufficiently between values such as freedom, equality, and efficiency, and allocation methods such as the market, the queue, and rationing. We introduce a new conceptual scheme consisting of societal domains, values, and allocation methods to provide a better structure for this debate. The argument is illustrated from the education and healthcare domains.
在一个社会中，什么应该出售，什么不应该出售？这是“市场的道德限度”（MLM）辩论中的核心问题，该辩论由一群商业伦理学家和自由平等主义政治理论家进行。这些MLM理论家，我们将其称为“市场道德主义者”，都提出了一种特定版本的论点，即虽然市场非常适合分配某些类别的商品和服务，但对于其他此类类别的分配却是不可取的。我们认为，当前的MLM辩论过多地以市场/非市场二分法为框架。此外，作者们往往没有充分区分自由、平等和效率等价值观，以及市场、排队和配给等分配方法。我们引入了一个由社会领域、价值观和分配方法组成的新的概念框架，为这场辩论提供一个更好的结构。我们将从教育和医疗领域举例说明这一论点。
