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What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel — WisdomDeck honest review
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What Money Can't Buy

by Michael J. Sandel

On the moral limits of markets: paying kids to read, selling line-spots, naming rights. Sandel asks what markets corrupt. Clear and thought-provoking.

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  1. Markets change the goods they touch.
  2. Some things should not be sold.
  3. Ask what is corrupted.

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Moral limits of markets.

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