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DESCRIPTION:From Harvard University’s Michael Sandel, the New York Times bestselling 
 author of Justice and “perhaps the most prominent college professor in 
 America” (The Washington Post), comes a timely look at the relationship 
 between markets and morals, a book that asks fundamental questions about 
 the reach of markets into our daily lives.\n\nClear and compelling, WHAT 
 MONEY CAN’T BUY offers the same immersive experience of moral philosophy 
 as Justice, a quality that also defines Sandel’s enormously popular 
 public lectures. Covering all aspects of life—from health to education, 
 public safety to national security, criminal justice, environmental 
 protection, sports and art, family life and personal relationships—Sandel 
 delves into the difficult arguments missing from our public debates about 
 the value being assigned by markets to nonmarket norms.\n\nWhy worry that 
 markets have come to define our lives as never before? Inequality and 
 corruption stand out as crucial concerns. The marketization of society 
 leads to a greater divide between people of means and those without; 
 putting a price on things such as children, the environment, and 
 citizenship can corrupt their value. Neither is good for democracy and both 
 are products of our having drifted from having a market economy to being a 
 market society.\n\nTo explore these concerns, Sandel leads us thoughtfully 
 through numerous questions, among them: Should we pay children to read 
 books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to be sterilized 
 or to donate their organs? Should lobbyists be allowed to pay someone to 
 stand in line for hearings and should people be able to buy other 
 people’s life insurance? Should companies be allowed to advertise in our 
 schools and prisons? Should it be possible to buy citizenship, access to 
 doctors, or admittance to elite universities? \n\n“The problem with our 
 politics,” Sandel writes, “is not too much moral argument but too 
 little . . . A debate about the moral limits of markets would enable us to 
 decide, as a society, where markets serve the public good and where they 
 don’t belong . . . The question of markets is really a question about how 
 we want to live together. Do we want a society where everything is up for 
 sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor 
 and money cannot buy?”\n\nMichael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. 
 Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught 
 since 1980. He is the author of many books, including Justice: What’s the 
 Right Thing to Do?, a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paperback 
 and a bestseller in translation in Japan and South Korea as well. He has 
 taught his undergraduate course “Justice” to more than 15,000 Harvard 
 students over the years, and video footage of the course were adapted into 
 a PBS television series. Sandel graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis 
 University and received his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was 
 a Rhodes Scholar. He served on the George W. Bush administration's 
 President's Council on Bioethics. He lives in Brookline, 
 Massachusetts.\n\n\nTuesday, May 15\nFirst Congregational Church of 
 Berkeley (2345 Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley; enter via Channing Street 
 door)\n\nTickets $12 ($6 students, including OLLI) in advance only at Brown 
 Paper Tickets online or 800-838-3006; $15 at the door (all)\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/20/18709751.php
SUMMARY:Michael Sandel / What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley CA 
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