What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

图书标准信息

• 作者 Michael J. Sandel 著
• 出版社 Farrar Straus and Giroux
• 出版时间 2013-04
• ISBN 9780374533656
• 定价 130.10元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 其他
• 纸张 其他
• 页数 256页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Shouldwepaychildrentoreadbooksortogetgoodgrades?Isitethicaltopaypeopletotestriskynewdrugsortodonatetheirorgans?Whatabouthiringmercenariestofightourwars,outsourcinginmatestofor-profitprisons,auctioningadmissiontoeliteuniversities,orsellingcitizenshiptoimmigrantswillingtopay?Isn'ttheresomethingwrongwithaworldinwhicheverythingisforsale?

Inrecentdecades,marketvalueshavecrowdedoutnonmarketnormsinalmosteveryaspectoflife-medicine,education,government,law,art,sports,evenfamilylifeandpersonalrelations.Withoutquiterealizingit,Sandelargues,wehavedriftedfromhavingamarketeconomytobeingamarketsociety.

InWhatMoneyCan'tBuy,Sandelexaminesoneofthebiggestethicalquestionsofourtimeandprovokesadebatethat'sbeenmissinginourmarket-drivenage:Whatistheproperroleofmarketsinademocraticsociety,andhowcanweprotectthemoralandcivicgoodsthatmarketsdonothonourandmoneycannotbuy?

【作者简介】

MichaelJ.SandelistheAnneT.andRobertM.BassProfessorofGovernmentatHarvardUniversity.Hislegendary'Justice'courseisthefirstHarvardcoursemadefreelyavailableonline(www.JusticeHarvard.org)andontelevision.Hissworkhasbeentranslatedinto15languagesandbeenthesubjectoftelevisionseriesintheU.K.,theU.S.,Japan,SouthKorea,Sweden,andtheMiddleEast.HehasdeliveredtheTannerLecturesatOxfordandbeenavisitingprofessorattheSorbonne,Paris.In2010,ChinaNewsweeknamedhimthe"mostinfluentialforeignfigureoftheyear"inChina.Sandelwasthe2009BBCReithLecturer,andhismostrecentbookJusticeisaninternationalbestseller.