MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011052182
003 DLC
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008 120104s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0374203032 (hbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn740628855
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050 00 $aHB72$b.S255 2012
082 00 $a174$223
100 1 $aSandel, Michael J.
245 10 $aWhat money can't buy :$bthe moral limits of markets /$cMichael J. Sandel.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2012.
300 $a244 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
520 $aSandel 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?
650 0 $aEconomics$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aCapitalism$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aWealth$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aValue.