Qian mai bu dao de dong xi

jin qian yu zheng yi de gong fang = What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets

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Michael J. Sandel: Qian mai bu dao de dong xi (Chinese language, 2012, Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si)

254 pages

Chinese language

Published 2012 by Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si.

ISBN:
978-986-134-196-5
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OCLC Number:
817740806

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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

  • Moral and ethical aspects
  • Economics
  • Wealth
  • Value
  • Capitalism