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What Money Can't Buy

The Moral Limits of Markets

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What Money Can't Buy

By: Michael J Sandel
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Michael J. Sandel's What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, read by the author himself. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? 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? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life - medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations.

Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and 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 honour and money cannot buy?

©2012 Michael Sandel (P)2012 Penguin Audio Ethics & Morality Philosophy Capitalism

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"One of the most popular teachers in the world." ( Observer)
"Sandel is touching something deep in both Boston and Beijing." (Thomas Friedman, New York Times)
"One of the world's most interesting political philosophers." ( Guardian)
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Author really went in-depth to establish boundaries of markets, may feel repeated with examples close to each another. Ended with a high level guideline as a yardstick and a typical conclusion. Still a good read/listen?

Same cake different sides

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Terrific book, only downsides: slight repetition, some points could have been made with less examples.

A fascinating critique of 'market thriumphalism'

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He saw the movie Moneyball and didn’t like it, then writes a book about how economics have ruined everything. I doubt he put any work into this, it is written as if by a pretentious teenager who thinks he’s the smartest person in the room.

I want my time and money back for this.

Poorly argued rant about gut feelings

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