Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning …
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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In this book the author takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life including medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, the author argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be? What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?
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What Money Can't Buy
Hardcover, 244 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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What Money Can't Buy
Hardcover, 244 pages
English language
Published Dec. 13, 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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What Money Can't Buy
Paperback
Published by Macmillan USA.
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- 978-0-374-98391-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 798616061
Jin qian bu neng mai shen me
294 pages
Chinese language
Published April 30, 2012 by Zhong xin chu ban she.
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- 978-7-5086-3659-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 844923354
Ce que l'argent ne saurait acheter
[texte imprime] :, 332 pages
French language
Published April 30, 2014 by Ed. du Seuil.
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- 978-2-02-117323-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 894116340
Was man für Geld nicht kaufen kann
Paperback
Published Sept. 12, 2014 by Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg..
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- 978-3-548-37526-7Copied ISBN!
What Money Can't Buy
audio cd, 6 pages
Published April 24, 2012 by Macmillan Audio.
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- 978-1-4272-1492-8Copied ISBN!
What Money Can't Buy
Paperback
Published Jan. 1, 2012 by Allen Lane.
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- 978-1-84614-472-1Copied ISBN!
Lo que el dinero no puede comparar
253 pages
Spanish language
Published April 30, 2013 by Debate.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9992-232-4Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 861229840
What Money Can't Buy
256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 2013 by Penguin Books, Limited.
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- 978-0-241-95448-5Copied ISBN!
What Money Can't Buy
256 pages
English language
Published April 30, 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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- 978-1-4299-4258-4Copied ISBN!
Qian mai bu dao de dong xi
254 pages
Chinese language
Published April 30, 2012 by Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si.
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- 978-986-134-196-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 817740806
Sore o okane de kaimasu ka
329 pages
Japanese language
Published April 30, 2012 by Hayakawa Shobō.
- ISBN:
- 978-4-15-209284-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 794032986
What Money Can't Buy
English language
Published April 30, 2012 by Center Point Pub..
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- 978-1-61173-506-2Copied ISBN!
Lo que el dinero no puede comprar
256 pages
Spanish language
Published April 30, 2019 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
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- 978-84-663-4809-6Copied ISBN!
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