Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market

Abstract

Part I Keeping the Market at Bay -- 1 Consumer Sovereignty and the Integrity of Practices 19 -- 1 The problem of boundaries 19 -- 2 Practices and institutions 22 -- 3 Practices and markets 25 -- 4 Consumer sovereignty and subjective values 29 -- 2 Scepticism, Authority and the Market 33 -- 1 Elitism, authority and modernity 34 -- 2 The authority of consumer preferences 38 -- 3 Cultural practices and consumer sovereignty 41 -- 4 Cultural practices, well-being and scepticism 45 -- 5 Scepticism and the market 49 -- 3 Citizens, Consumers and the Environment: Reflections on The Economy of the Earth 52 -- 1 Economism and the environment 52 -- 2 The assimilation of values to preferences 54 -- 3 Virtues, methods and rationality 58 -- 4 Cultural values in place of method 61 -- 5 Political debate and the value of consumption 66 -- 4 Colonization by the Market: Walzer on Recognition 70 -- 1 The question of market boundaries 70 -- 2 Justice and the separation of spheres 71 -- 3 Private recognition 74 -- 4 Public recognition 77 -- 5 Self-respect and self-esteem 79 -- 6 Recognition, practices and social goods 81 -- 5 Science and Recognition 86 -- 1 Different ways of producing goods 86 -- 2 Hagstrom and Ravetz on recognition in science 91 -- 3 The exchange of information for recognition 98 -- 4 The desire to make goods 102 -- Part II Making the Best of the Market -- 6 Markets, Firms and Practices 111 -- 1 The rise of the market and the decline of practices 111 -- 2 Two ways of fishing 115 -- 3 'Market' motives and relationships 118 -- 4 Emulation, competition and exclusivity 120 -- 5 The requirement of 'community' 123 -- 6 Purposive practices and the goods of consumption 127 -- 7 Consumer-Friendly Production or Producer-Friendly Consumption? 133 -- 1 Production, consumption and well-being 133 -- 2 Consumer-friendly production 136 -- 3 Producer-friendly consumption 141 -- 4 The productive use of consumer goods 144 -- 8 Justifying the Market and its Limitation 149 -- 1 Classical versus liberal rationales for the market 149 -- 2 Consumer judgements and cultural meta-goods 151 -- 3 The under-production of cultural meta-goods 157 -- 4 Liberal neutrality, state and market 161 -- 5 The market and a politics of common goods 165.