"Michael Sandel's What Money Can't Buy is a great volume and I recommend every economist to read information technology, even though we are not really his target audience. The book is pitched at a much wider audience of concerned citizens. But it taps into a rich seam of discontent well-nigh the discipline of economics.... The book is brimming with interesting examples which make you lot think.... I read this book encompass-to-embrace in less than 48 hours. And I have written more marginal notes than for any volume I have read in a long fourth dimension." —Timothy Besley, Journal of Economic Literature
"Provocative. . . What Coin Can't Buy [is] an engaging, compelling read, consistently unsettling and occasionally unnerving. . . [Information technology] deserves a broad readership." —David M. Kennedy, Republic
"Vivid, easily readable, beautifully delivered and ofttimes funny. . . an indispensable volume on the relationship between morality and economics." —David Aaronovitch, The Times (London)
"Sandel is probably the world's most relevant living philosopher." —Michael Fitzgerald, Newsweek
"In a culture mesmerized past the market, Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason…. What Money Tin't Buy. . . must surely be ane of the about important exercises in public philosophy in many years." —John Grey, New Statesman
"[An] of import book. . . Michael Sandel is only the right person to get to the bottom of the tangle of moral harm that is existence done past markets to our values." —Jeremy Waldron, The New York Review of Books
"The near famous teacher of philosophy in the world, [has] shown that it is possible to take philosophy into the public square without insulting the public'southward intelligence. . .[He] is trying to forcefulness open a space for a discourse on civic virtue that he believes has been abandoned by both left and right." —Michael Ignatieff, The New Republic
"[Sandel]is such a gentle critic that he merely asks us to open our optics. . . Yet What Coin Tin can't Buy makes it clear that marketplace morality is an exceptionally sparse wedge. . . Sandel is pointing out. . . [a] quite profound change in society." —Jonathan V. Last, The Wall Street Journal
"What Money Tin't Buy is the work of a truly public philosopher. . . [It] recalls John Kenneth Galbraith's influential 1958 book, The Affluent Gild. . .Galbraith lamented the impoverishment of the public square. Sandel worries about its abandonment--or, more precisely, its desertion by the more than fortunate and capable among usa. . .[A]northward engaging, compelling read, consistently unsettling. . . it reminds u.s. how easy information technology is to slip into a purely material calculus about the meaning of life and the means we prefer in pursuit of happiness." —David One thousand. Kennedy, Commonwealth: A Journal of Ideas
"[Sandel] is currently the about constructive communicator of ideas in English language." —The Guardian
"Michael Sandel is probably the most popular political philosopher of his generation. . .The attention Sandel enjoys is more akin to a stadium-filling self-aid guru than a philosopher. But rather than instructing his audiences to maximize earning ability or balance their chakras, he challenges them to address fundamental questions about how society is organized. . . His new book [What Money Can't Buy] offers an eloquent argument for morality in public life." —Andrew Anthony, The Observer (London)
"What Money Can't Purchase is replete with examples of what money tin, in fact, purchase. . . Sandel has a genius for showing why such changes are deeply important." —Martin Sandbu, Financial Times
"One of the leading political thinkers of our time…. Sandel'southward new book is What Money Can't Purchase: The Moral Limits of Markets, and I recommend it highly. It'south a powerful indictment of the marketplace order we have become, where almost everything has a price." —Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
"To understand the importance of [Sandel's] purpose, you lot start accept to grasp the full extent of the triumph achieved by market place thinking in economic science, and the extent to which that thinking has spread to other domains. This school sees economics equally a discipline that has nothing to do with morality, and is instead the written report of incentives, considered in an ethical vacuum. Sandel'southward book is, in its calm way, an all-out assault on that idea…. Permit's promise that What Money Tin't Purchase, past being so patient and so accumulative in its argument and its examples, marks a permanent shift in these debates." —John Lancaster, The Guardian
"Sandel is amongst the leading public intellectuals of the age. He writes clearly and concisely in prose that neither oversimplifies nor obfuscates…. Sandel asks the crucial question of our fourth dimension: 'Do we want a society where everything is up for sale? Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets exercise not laurels and coin cannot purchase?'" —Douglas Bell, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Securely provocative and intellectually suggestive…. What Sandel does…is to prod u.s. into asking whether we have any reason for drawing a line between what is and what isn't exchangeable, what can't be reduced to article terms…. [A] wake-upwardly call to recognize our desperate need to rediscover some intelligible way of talking nigh humanity." —Rowan Williams, Prospect
"There is no more central question nosotros face than how to all-time preserve the common good and build potent communities that do good everyone. Sandel'southward book is an first-class starting place for that dialogue." —Kevin J. Hamilton, The Seattle Times
"Poring through Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's new book. . . I found myself over and over once more turning pages and saying, 'I had no idea.' I had no thought that in the year 2000, 'a Russian rocket emblazoned with a behemothic Pizza Hut logo carried advertising into outer space.'. . . I knew that stadiums are now named for corporations, only had no idea that at present 'even sliding into habitation is a corporate-sponsored issue.'. . . I had no idea that in 2001 an elementary schoolhouse in New Jersey became America's first public schoolhouse 'to sell naming rights to a corporate sponsor.' Why worry about this trend? Considering, Sandel argues, market values are crowding out borough practices." —Thomas Friedman, New York Times
"An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"In his new book, Michael Sandel --the closest the world of political philosophy comes to a celebrity -- argues that we now alive in a society where 'almost everything can exist bought and sold.' As markets take infiltrated more than parts of life, Sandel believes nosotros accept shifted from a market economic system to 'a marketplace club,' turning the globe -- and most of the states in it -- into commodities. And when Sandel proselytizes, the earth listens…. Sandel's ideas could hardly be more than timely." —Rosamund Urwin, Evening Standard (London)
