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Author: Michael J. Sandel

📘 What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel

In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel tackles the pressing question of whether a society that increasingly sells almost everything is ethically sound. He argues that market values have displaced nonmarket norms across medicine, education, government, law, art, and even personal relationships. Sandel explores a range of contemporary dilemmas—from paying children to read or to achieve grades, to corporations paying to pollute, to compensating patients for risky drug trials, to auctioning university admissions and citizenship. He contends that we have drifted from a market economy to a market society, and he asks what the proper role of markets should be in a democratic context, and how we might protect moral and civic goods that money cannot buy.

First publish date: 2011

Genre: Philosophy/Ethics

Authors: Michael J. Sandel

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