What Money Cant Buy, Michael J. Sandel
What Money Cant Buy, Michael J. Sandel
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What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets

Author: Michael J. Sandel

Narrator: Michael J. Sandel

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2012


Synopsis

In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society.

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?

In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets?

Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society.

In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

About Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets and Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? were international best sellers and have been translated into 27 languages. Sandel’s legendary course “Justice” was the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and has been viewed by tens of millions. His BBC series “The Public Philosopher” explores the philosophical ideas lying behind the headlines with participants from around the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on November 29, 2021

Should some things not be for sale? asks the author, a distinguished moral philosopher. If you are a person who loves the idea of free markets, you may be inclined to disagree: when someone wants something, and someone else has it, then the best way to sort things out is accept the fact that this es......more

Goodreads review by Tiffany on December 04, 2013

Not to brag or anything (or maybe just to brag a little), but I actually knew of Michael Sandel's scholarship way before he wrote Justice, a book I didn't even read, but which achieved international acclaim and thus gave Sandel that coveted status of Superstar Public Intellectual. My introduction to......more

Goodreads review by Cynnamon on November 06, 2019

In this short book Michael Sandel writes about the growing commodification of social life. He raises the question if we should want a market economy of a market society and shows how market mechanisms take over parts of our lifes that definitely shouldn't be for sale. The book contains a plethora of w......more


Quotes

“Given Sandel's prominence and the challenging topic, this title will be of interest to the academic or professional with a lengthy daily commute.” —Library Journal

“It's likely everyone will have a few points to ponder after hearing [Sandel]'s thoughts.” —AudioFile