What Money Can’t Buy
- Author Michael J. Sandel
- Narrator Michael J. Sandel
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 7 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Business ethics and social responsibility, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy.
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What to expect
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?
Critics Review
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One of the most popular teachers in the world
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Sandel is touching something deep in both Boston and Beijing
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
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