What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel - ISBN: 9780241954485
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Is everything for sale? What’s lost when markets dominate life?

What Money Can't Buy

The Moral Limits of Markets

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    26 June 2013

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Summary

What Money Can’t Buy

The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from ‘the superstar philosopher’, Michael Sandel.

Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, or selling citizenship?

In recent decades, market values have impinged on almost every aspect of life – medicine, education, government, law, even family l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241954485
ISBN-10:0241954487
Author:Michael J. Sandel
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:26 June 2013
Weight:192g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 15mm
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Critics Review

One of the most popular teachers in the world

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 *The most influential foreign figure of the year * China’s Newsweek *Few philosophers are compared to rock stars or TV celebrities, but that’s the kind of popularity Michael Sandel enjoys in Japan * Japan Times *One of the world’s most interesting political philosophers * Guardian *What Money Can’t Buy selected by the Guardian as a literary highlight for 2012 * Guardian *America’s best-known contemporary political philosopher … the most famous professor in the world right now… the man is an academic rock star [but] instead of making it all serious and formidable, Sandel makes it light and easy to grasp – Mitu Jayashankar * Forbes India *An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life * Kirkus Reviews *Sandel is probably the world’s most relevant living philosopher – Michael Fitzgerald * Newsweek *Mr Sandel is pointing out [a] quite profound change in society – Jonathan V Last * Wall Street Journal *

About The Author

Michael J. Sandel

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His legendary ‘Justice’ course is the first Harvard course made freely available online and on television. His work has been translated into 15 languages and been the subject of television series in the U.K., the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and the Middle East. He has delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford and been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 2010, China Newsweek named him the “most influential foreign figure of the year” in China. Sandel was the 2009 BBC Reith Lecturer, and his most recent book Justice is an international bestseller.

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