Contents
Introduction: Markets and Morals
Market Triumphalism • Everything for Sale • The Role of Markets • Our Rancorous Politics / 3
1. Jumping the Queue
Airports, Amusement Parks, Car Pool Lanes • Hired Line
Standers • Ticket Scalpers • Concierge Doctors • Markets Versus
Queues • Yosemite Campsites • Papal Masses •
Springsteen Concerts / 17
2. Incentives
Cash for Sterilization • The Economic Approach to Life • Paying
Kids for Good Grades • Bribes to Lose Weight • Selling the Right
to Immigrate • A Market in Refugees • Speeding Tickets and Subway
Cheats • Tradable Procreation Permits • Tradable Pollution
Permits • Carbon Offsets • Paying to Kill an Endangered
Rhino • Ethics and Economics / 43
3. How Markets Crowd Out Morals Hired Friends • Bought Apologies and Wedding Toasts • The Case
Against Gifts • Auctioning College Admission • Coercion and
Corruption • Nuclear Waste Sites • Donation Days and Day-Care
Pickups • Blood for Sale • Economizing Love / 93
4. Markets in Life and Death
Janitors Insurance • Betting on Death • Internet Death
Pools • Insurance Versus Gambling • The Terrorism Futures
Market • The Lives of Strangers • Death Bonds / 131
5. Naming Rights
Autographs for Sale • Corporate-Sponsored Home Runs • Luxury
Skyboxes • Moneyball • Bathroom Advertising • Ads in Books • Body Billboards • Branding the Public Square • Branded
Lifeguards and Nature Trails • Police Cars and Fire
Hydrants • Commercials in the Classroom • Ads in Jails • The
Skyboxification of Everyday Life / 163
Notes/207
Acknowledgments / 233 Index/237