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.
Read it if…
you want to think about where money should not reach.
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Skip it if…
you want economics without ethics.
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Three things you will actually use
- Markets change the goods they touch.
- Some things should not be sold.
- Ask what is corrupted.
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Read the chapter on incentives.
Our verdict
Moral limits of markets.
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