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What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets /

By: Sandel, Michael J
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Penguin Books, c2012.Description: 244 p. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 978-0241954485; 184614471X (hbk.)Subject(s): Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects | Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects | Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects | Management and Business StudiesDDC classification: 174.4
Summary:
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?
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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai
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174.4 SA WH (Browse shelf) Available T0014017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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?

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