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

Sandel, Michael J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374203032 ISBN 13 : 9780374203030

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012

Synopsis

What Money Can't Buy Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is 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 marke...

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould 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 life. We have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy Michael Sandel asks: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? And how do we protect the things that really matter?'Brilliant, easily readable, beautifully delivered and often funny ... an indispensable book' David Aaronovitch, The Times'In a culture mesmerised by the market, Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason' John Gray, New Statesman'Provocative and intellectually suggestive ... little less than a wake-up call' Rowan Williams, Prospect'A star philosopher ... entertaining and provocative' Diane Coyle, Independent 'Let's hope that What Money Can't Buy, by being so patient and accumulative in its argument and examples, marks a permanent shift in these debates' John Lanchester, Guardian 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 (www.JusticeHarvard.org) and on television. Hiss 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.

Revue de presse :

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 )

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0374203032
• ISBN 13: 9780374203030
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244