ABSTRACT

When critics of the market write books about what should not be for sale, what they intend to do is to identify things that are normally permissible for adults to possess, own, have, occupy, provide, or use, but which are not permissible for those adults to trade, sell, and/or buy. They intend to discuss cases where markets really do transform otherwise permissible activities into wrongful actions. They intend to identify cases where the wrongness of buying and selling an object originates in the buying and selling, not in the object itself. We think you may buy or sell line-standing services, unless there are incidental reasons or special circumstances that explain why not. One such special circumstance would be if the park forbade such services. In that case, one would have promised not to sell line-standing services as a condition of buying his/her admission ticket.