What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

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Challenging the morality of market omnipresence.

"What Money Can't Buy" is a thought-provoking journey that tackles the philosophical conundrum of our era—whether every sphere of life should be subjected to market forces. If you're keen on questioning the status quo or have ever pondered about the moral consequences of a society driven by market values, this is a read that will not only satiate your intellectual curiosity but will also encourage deep reflection on how we value human life and society's integrity.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Shortlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Regular price RM36.57 MYR
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ISBN: 9780374533656
Date of Publication: 2013-04-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Politics, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Business
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In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? 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? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't 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? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age
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