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?
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“A Best Book of the Year Bloomberg • The Guardian • The Times Literary Supplement • New Statesman” This New York Times bestseller is a sweeping and inspiring account of the role of justice in our society—and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens. Renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society
“Astute, insightful, and empathetic, Sandel exposes the cruelty at the heart of some of our most beloved myths about success. . . A crucial book for this moment.” —Tara Westover, author of Educated “This book is absolutely indispensable for anyone who wants to be a good citizen. It shows how to balance competing values, a talent our nation desperately needs nowadays.” ―Walter Isaacson “What Money Can’t Buy is replete with examples of what money can, in fact, buy. . . Sandel has a genius for showing why such changes are deeply important.” —Financial Times
ASIN : B00633PFQC
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Publication date : April 24, 2012
Edition : Reprint
Language : English
File size : 655 KB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 260 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781429942584
ISBN-13 : 978-1429942584
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #211,824 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #9 in Business Ethics (Books) #27 in Business Ethics (Kindle Store) #138 in Philosophy of Ethics & Morality
Customer Reviews: 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,886)