What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of MarketsFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 24. tra 2012. - Broj stranica: 256 In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. |
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... 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 ...
... hired thirty people to shave their heads and wear temporary tattoos with the slogan “Need a change? Head down to New Zealand.”9 • Serve as a human guinea pig in a drug safety trial for a pharmaceutical company: $7,500. The pay can be ...
... hire homeless people and others to queue up.12 • If you are a second grader in an underachieving Dallas school, read a book: $2. To encourage reading, the schools pay kids for each book they read.13 • If you are obese, lose fourteen ...
... Hiring foreign mercenaries to fight our wars might spare the lives of our citizens but corrupt the meaning of citizenship. Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not affect the goods they exchange. But this is ...
... hire a substitute to take your place. Nor do we allow citizens to sell their votes, even though others might be eager to buy them. Why not? Because we believe that civic duties should not be regarded as private property but should be ...
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Incentives | |
How Markets Crowd Out Morals | |
Versus Gambling The Terrorism Futures Market The Lives of Strangers | |
Branding the Public Square Branded Lifeguards and Nature Trails Police | |
Acknowledgments | |
A Note About the Author | |