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A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our societyShould 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 forprofit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling... more

About Michael Sandel

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His work has been the subject of television series on PBS and the BBC. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?


Published: April 24, 2012 by Macmillan Publishing

Genre: Business & Economics. Non-fiction. 256 pages

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  • All Critics: 25
  • Positive: 14
  • Negative: 11

  • The Guardian | 17 May 2012

    Let's hope that What Money Can't Buy, by being so patient and so accumulative in its argument and its examples, marks a permanent shift in these debates.

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  • Kirkus Reviews | 15 Apr 2012

    An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life.

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  • The Telegraph | 8 May 2012

    The problem is that he offers only half of the argument needed to sustain his case.

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  • bigWOWO | 20 May 2012

    This was an excellent book... I think readers of this blog will especially appreciate it, as too often people shrug off our exclusion from the media by saying, “Hey, it’s just the market!”

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  • The Independent | 5 May 2012

    What Money Can't Buy will tap into a widespread unease about having to limit government and accept a larger private domain in this age of austerity... But it does not offer a clear guide to which markets are repugnant, and why.

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  • The Wall Street Journal | 20 Apr 2012

    He is such a gentle critic that he merely asks us to open our eyes.

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  • The Daily Beast | 16 Apr 2012

    To make his argument Sandel stays focused on the everyday; he’s a practical philosopher.

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  • Financial Times | 19 May 2012

    Sandel’s approach is more promising for being more modest... He calls merely for a willingness to discuss how we ought to value things.

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  • Review (Barnes & Noble) | 9 May 2012

    Sandel's case is compelling.

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  • Stanford Social Innovation Review

    What Money Can’t Buy is neither original nor deep, but if it stimulates a wider public discussion about the emergence of a market society, it will have succeeded on its own terms.

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  • Libertarianism.org | 23 May 2012

    The onus is on Professor Sandel to differentiate between the two, and in What Money Can’t Buy, he fails to meet this challenge.

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  • Management Today | 1 Jun 2012

    In a world where solutions based on market and economic incentives have powerful advocates, What Money Can't Buy offers much-needed pause for thought.

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  • Newsday | 3 May 2012

    The subtitle suggests it will tell us "the moral limits of markets," but all it really tells us is that such limits ought to exist.

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  • CNN Money | 20 Apr 2012

    Sandel doesn't address the more challenging question, whether there's a viable alternative to the market-driven hamster wheel that we're apparently trapped on.

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  • London School of Economics | 17 Jun 2012

    In my view, Sandel fully fulfills what any scholar would have liked to see, and even takes it one full step forward – he brings the issue to be debated and raises it in a way each one of us feels fully equipped to voice concerns.

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  • Christianity Today | 8 May 2012

    What Money Can't Buy furthers Sandel's reputation as a great public intellectual.

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  • Seattle Times | 29 Apr 2012

    Sandel's book is an excellent starting place for that dialogue.

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  • The New Republic | 18 May 2012

    Sandel denounces inequality, but in order to do something about it, he needs a politically persuasive rationale ...

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  • The Gospel Coalition

    Sandel’s subjective intuitionism and one-sided presentation of the issues prevents me from recommending his work.

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  • Prospect | 23 Apr 2012

    amply researched and presented with exemplary clarity

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  • Finance & Development

    Readers interested in pondering the social implications of free markets will find much to chew on, though they will probably be left unsatisfied.

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  • Boston.com | 23 May 2012

    I've enjoyed this book quite a lot and think it's well worth reading in its entirety...

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  • The Humanist | 1 Jul 2012

    Sandel’s thoroughgoing criticism of imperious marketization is always coolly argued, but nonetheless unsparing.

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  • Literary Review

    There is not a whole book's worth of argument in this short, repetitive volume.

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  • Labour Uncut | 24 Jun 2012

    This book underlines that uncomfortable feeling.

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