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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sandel, Michael J.     Subjects     Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects.     Value.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sandel, Michael J.       by title:      What money can't buy...         MARC Display

What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets / Michael J. Sandel. by Sandel, Michael J. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Subjects Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Wealth -- Moral and ethical aspects.   Value. ISBN:  9780374203030 (hbk.) 0374203032 (hbk.) Description:  244 p. ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Introduction : markets and morals. Market triumphalism ; Everything for sale ; The role of markets ; Our rancorous politics -- 1. Jumping the queue. Airports, amusement parks, car pool lanes ; Hired line standers ; Ticket scalpers ; Concierge doctors ; Markets versus queues ; Yosemite campsites ; Papal masses ; Springsteen concerts -- 2. Incentives. Cash for sterilization ; The economic approach to life ; Paying kids for good grades ; Bribes to lose weight ; Selling the right to immigrate ; A market in refugees ; Speeding tickets and subway cheats ; Tradable procreation permits ; Tradable pollution permits ; Carbon offsets ; Paying to kill an endangered rhino ; Ethics and economics -- 3. How markets crowd out morals. Hired friends ; Bought apologies and wedding toasts ; The case against gifts ; Auctioning college admission ; Coercion and corruption ; Nuclear waste sites ; Donation days and day-care pickups ; Blood for sale ; Economizing love -- 4. Markets in life and death. Janitors insurance ; Betting on death ; Internet death pools ; Insurance versus gambling ; The terrorism futures market ; The lives of strangers ; Death bonds -- 5. Naming rights. Autographs for sale ; Corporate-sponsored home runs ; Luxury skyboxes ; Moneyball ; Bathroom advertising ; Ads in books ; Body billboards ; Branding the public square ; Branded lifeguards and nature trails ; Police cars and fire hydrants ; Commercials in the classroom ; Ads in jails ; The skyboxification of everyday life. Requests:  0 Summary:  Sandel argues that we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society and examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 174 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 174 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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