What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael Sandel
Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons or selling citizenship? 
In recent decades, market values have impinged on almost every aspect of life - medicine, education, government, law, even family life. We have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy Michael Sandel asks: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? And how do we protect the things that really matter?
'Brilliant, easily readable, beautifully delivered and often funny ... an indispensable book' David Aaronovitch, The Times
'In a culture mesmerised by the market, Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason' John Gray, New Statesman
'Provocative and intellectually suggestive ... little less than a wake-up call' Rowan Williams, Prospect
'A star philosopher ... entertaining and provocative' Diane Coyle, Independent 
'Let's hope that What Money Can't Buy, by being so patient and accumulative in its argument and examples, marks a permanent shift in these debates' John Lanchester, Guardian
Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. His legendary 'Justice' course is the first Harvard course made freely available online (www.JusticeHarvard.org) and on television. Hiss work has been translated into 15 languages and been the subject of television series in the U.K., the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and the Middle East. He has delivered the Tanner Lectures at Oxford and been a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 2010, China Newsweek named him the "most influential foreign figure of the year" in China. Sandel was the 2009 BBC Reith Lecturer, and his most recent book Justice is an international bestseller.

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Business & Money

Sandel, Michael

Business Culture

Penguin

What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict?These questions are at the core of our public life today―and at the heart of Justice, in which Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well.Sandel's legendary Justice course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard. Up to a thousand students pack the campus theater to hear Sandel relate the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of the day. In the fall of 2009, PBS will air a series based on the course.Justice offers listeners the same exhilarating journey that captivates Harvard students―the challenge of thinking our way through the hard moral challenges we confront as citizens. It is a searching, lyrical exploration of the meaning of justice, an audiobook that invites readers of all political persuasions to consider familiar controversies in fresh and illuminating ways. Affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide, abortion, national service, the moral limits of markets, patriotism and dissent―Sandel shows how even the most hotly contested issues can be illuminated by reasoned moral argument.Justice is lively, thought-provoking, and wise―an essential new addition to the small shelf of books that speak convincingly to the big questions of our civic life.

{JUSTICE} BY Sandel, Michael J. (Author )Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?(Paperback)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Quel travail mérite salaire ? Un gouvernement devrait-il être moralement neutre ? Qu'est-ce que la liberté ? Sommes-nous propriétaires de nous-mêmes ? Le patriotisme est-il une vertu ? Michael J. Sandel excelle dans l'art d'aborder, sous un angle éthique, les questions politiques les plus complexes en les ramenant à des enjeux dont chacun peut aisément se saisir.\n« Une légende des salles de conférences, le maître des grandes questions. » The Guardian 
« Brillante, accessible et profondément humaine, une lecture dont on sort transformé. »Publishers Weekly

Justice

ALBIN MICHEL

Justice (Espaces Libres - Idées)

Una sociedad liberal no pretende imponer una única forma de vida, sino permitir a sus ciudadanos elegir de la manera más libre posible sus propios valores y propósitos. Por ello debe gobernar con principios de justicia que no presuponen ninguna visión particular de lo que es una buena vida. Sin embargo, ¿es posible encontrar tales principios? Y, si no, ¿cuáles son las consecuencias para la justicia en tanto ideal moral y político? Estas son las preguntas que Michael Sandel plantea en su crítica penetrante del liberalismo contemporáneo. Después de situar los horizontes del liberalismo moderno pertinentemente en la tradición de la Filosofía del Derecho de Kant, analiza su expresión más influyente en la obra de John Rawls. En una confrontación con los puntos más importantes de la teoría de la justicia de Rawls, Sandel explora los límites del liberalismo que subyacen en su concepción de la persona y aboga por una comprensión más profunda de la comunidad que la que admite el liberalismo. La presente segunda edición de esta obra, originariamente escrita en 1982, está notablemente enriquecida con referencias y comentarios sobre la importante discusión de los años ochenta y noventa entre liberalismo y comunitarismo y presenta también un análisis de la evolución posterior de John Rawls. Esta puesta al día no sólo tiene un valor informativo evidente, sino que permite apreciar la asombrosa intuición y anticipación del desarrollo presentado por Sandel con respecto a temas aún en estado naciente en el momento de la primera publicación de esta obra.

El liberalismo y los límites de la justicia (Spanish Edition)

Reference

EDITORIAL GEDISA

¿Cómo impedir que los valores del mercado se impongan allí donde no corresponden? ¿Deberíamos pagar a los niños para que lean libros o saquen buenas notas? ¿Deberíamos permitir que las empresas compren el derecho a contaminar el medio ambiente?¿Es ético pagar a gente para probar nuevos medicamentos peligrosos o para donar sus órganos?¿Y contratar mercenarios que luchen por nosotros?¿O vender la ciudadanía a los inmigrantes que quieran pagar? En Lo que el dinero no puede comprar, Michael J. Sandel se plantea una de las mayores cuestiones éticas de nuestro tiempo:¿hay algo malo en que todo esté a la venta? Si es así,¿cómo podemos impedir que los valores del mercado alcancen esferas de la sociedad donde no deben estar?¿Cuáles son los límites morales del mercado? En las últimas décadas, los valores del mercado han expulsado a las demás normas en casi todos los aspectos de la vida cotidiana - medicina, educación, gobierno, ley, arte, deporte, incluso la vida familiar y las relaciones personales. Sin darnos cuenta, dice Sandel, hemos pasado de tener una economía de mercado a ser una sociedad de mercado.¿Es eso lo que queremos ser? Si en su extraordinario libro Justicia, Sandel demostró su maestría a las hora de explicar con claridad y vigor las duras cuestiones morales que afrontamos en el día a día, en este nuevo libro provoca una discusión esencial que en esta era dominada por el mercado necesitamos tener: cuál es el papel adecuado de los mercados en una sociedad democrática y cómo podemos proteger los bienes morales y cívicos que los mercados ignoran y que el dinero no puede comprar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't 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. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: 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?

Lo que el dinero no puede comp (Spanish Edition)

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