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  1. See Michael Sandel, “How Markets Crowd Out Morals,” Boston Review. (2012) and What Money Can’t Buy: the Moral Limits of Markets (New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2012).

  2. See Elizabeth Anderson, “For Profit Corruption,” Boston Review (2012) and “The Ethical Limitations of the Market,” Economics and Philosophy Vol. 6 No. 2, (1990).

  3. Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski, Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests (New York: Routledge, 2015), p. 10.

  4. See Jacob Sparks, “Can’t Buy Me Love: A Reply to Brennan and Jaworski,” Journal of Philosophical Research, Vol. 42 (2017) and James Stacey Taylor, “What Limits Should Markets be Without,” Business Ethics Journal Review, Vol 4, No. 7, (2016).

  5. See David Dick, “Impure Semiotic Objections to Markets,” Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 32, No 2. (2018) and Mark Wells, “Markets with Some Limits,” The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 51, No.4, (2017).

  6. See Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski, “Markets without Symbolic Limits,” Ethics, Vol. 125, No. 4, (2015).

  7. See Mark Wells, op. cite. in note 5.

  8. George Akerlof, “Labor Contracts as Partial Gift Exchange,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 97, No. 4 (1982), 543-569.

  9. Jason Brennan and Peter Jaworski, “I’ll Pay You Ten Bucks Not to Murder Me,” Business Ethics Journal Review, Vol. 4, No. 9, (2016), p. 55.

  10. ibid., p. 55.

  11. David Gauthier’s Morals by Agreement, ((Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) and Timothy Scanlon, What we owe to each other, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).

  12. Brennan and Jaworski, Markets without Limits op. cite., p. 10-17

  13. Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 152-153.

  14. Jason Brennan, The Ethics of Voting, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), p. 135-160.

  15. David Dick, “Transformable Goods and the Limits of What Money Can Buy,” Moral Philosophy and Politics, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2017), p. 122.

  16. See Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy op. cite.

  17. See Elizabeth Anderson, Value in Ethics and Economics, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).

  18. Dick, op. cite. in note 15, p. 128.

  19. Brennan and Jaworski, Markets without Limits op. cite., ch. 3.

  20. Dick, op. cite. in note 15.

  21. Sparks, op. cite. in note 4.

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I am deeply grateful to David Dick, Peter Jaworski, and Elena Tumasz-Jordan, as well as a number of anonymous reviewers, who offered insight and helped immensely in the development of this paper.

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Stein, J. Exchanging for Reasons, Right and Wrong. J Value Inquiry 53, 213–223 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-018-9662-9

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