Book Review: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel
There is a maxim in debating that to build a good argument, it helps to start with a single irrefutable statement. Author Michael Sandel’s is a doozy: “We live at a time when almost everything can be bought and sold.”
From this simple declarative statement, Sandel raises the equally simple, but largely ignored, question of whether or not this is a good thing. “Today the logic of buying and selling no longer applies to material goods alone but increasingly governs the whole of life. It is time to ask whether we want to live this way.” ...