What Money Can't Buy

The Moral Limits of Markets

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Michael J. Sandel: What Money Can't Buy (2012, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

256 pages

English language

Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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978-1-4299-4258-4
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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In this book the author takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is 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? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life including medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, the author …

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Subjects

  • Economics, moral and ethical aspects
  • Capitalism
  • Wealth, moral and ethical aspects
  • Value