Michael Sandel
American political philosopher, born in 1953; author of What Money Can't Buy (2012).
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We live at a time when almost everything can be bought and sold
We live at a time when almost everything can be bought and sold.
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We live at a time when almost everything can be bought and sold
We live at a time when almost everything can be bought and sold.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
The big change of recent decades was not more greed but markets spreading where they don't belong
The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don't belong.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
Market values sometimes crowd out nonmarket values worth caring about
Sometimes, market values crowd out nonmarket values worth caring about.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
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Putting a price on good things can corrupt them
Putting a price on the good things in life can corrupt them.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
Markets are not inert: they change the goods they exchange
Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not affect the goods they exchange. But this is untrue.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
Markets leave their mark
Markets leave their mark.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
Democracy needs citizens to share a common life, not perfect equality
Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) Said c. 2012
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