In What Money Can't Buy Michael Sandel asks- Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? And how do we protect the things that really matter?
Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His legendary 'Justice' course is the first Harvard course made freely available online (www.JusticeHarvard.org) and on television. Hiss work has been translated into 15 languages and been the subject of television series in the U.K., the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and the Middle East. He has delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford and been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 2010, China Newsweek named him the "most influential foreign figure of the year" in China. Sandel was the 2009 BBC Reith Lecturer, and his most recent book Justice is an international bestseller.
One of the most popular teachers in the world * Observer *
Sandel is touching something deep in both Boston and Beijing --
Thomas Friedman * New York Times *
The most influential foreign figure of the year * China's Newsweek
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Few philosophers are compared to rock stars or TV celebrities, but
that's the kind of popularity Michael Sandel enjoys in Japan *
Japan Times *
One of the world's most interesting political philosophers *
Guardian *
What Money Can't Buy selected by the Guardian as a
literary highlight for 2012 * Guardian *
America's best-known contemporary political philosopher ... the
most famous professor in the world right now... the man is an
academic rock star [but] instead of making it all serious and
formidable, Sandel makes it light and easy to grasp -- Mitu
Jayashankar * Forbes India *
An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues
of everyday life * Kirkus Reviews *
Sandel is probably the world's most relevant living philosopher --
Michael Fitzgerald * Newsweek *
Mr Sandel is pointing out [a] quite profound change in society --
Jonathan V Last * Wall Street Journal *
Provocative and intellectually suggestive ... amply researched and
presented with exemplary clarity, [it] is weighty indeed - little
less than a wake-up call to recognise our desperate need to
rediscover some intelligible way of talking about humanity -- Rowan
Williams * Prospect *
Brilliant, easily readable, beautifully delivered and often funny
... an indispensable book -- David Aaronovitch * Times *
Entertaining and provocative -- Diane Coyle * Independent *
Poring through Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's new book ... I
found myself over and over again turning pages and saying, "I had
no idea." I had no idea that in the year 2000 ... "a Russian rocket
emblazoned with a giant Pizza Hut logo carried advertising into
outer space," or that in 2001, the British novelist Fay Weldon
wrote a book commissioned by the jewelry company Bulgari ... I knew
that stadiums are now named for corporations, but had no idea that
now "even sliding into home is a corporate-sponsored event" ... I
had no idea that in 2001 an elementary school in New Jersey became
America's first public school "to sell naming rights to a corporate
sponsor" -- Thomas Friedman * New York Times *
A vivid illustration ... 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 -- John
Lanchester * Guardian *
In a culture mesmerised by the market, Sandel's is the
indispensable voice of reason ... if we ... bring basic values into
political life in the way that Sandel suggests, at least we won't
be stuck with the dreary market orthodoxies that he has so
elegantly demolished -- John Gray * New Statesman *
What Money Can't Buy is replete with examples of what money
can, in fact, buy ... Sandel has a genius for showing why such
changes are deeply important -- Martin Sandbu * Financial Times
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Michael Sandel ... is currently the most effective communicator of
ideas in English * Guardian *
Sandel, the most famous teacher of philosophy in the world, has
shown that it is possible to take philosophy into the public square
without insulting the public's intelligence -- Michael Ignatieff *
New Republic *
A book that can persuade people that the rules of the economy don't
just reflect our values, they help to determine them -- Ed Miliband
* New Statesman *
Fascinating exploration of the alarming encroachment of market
philosophy on so many aspects of our lives -- Alexander McCall
Smith * The Herald *
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