What Michael Sandel thinks about democracy

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Political philosopher at Harvard, born in 1953, whose What Money Can't Buy (2012) argued that markets have spread into areas of life where they corrupt the goods they price.

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1 dated position, c. 2012, in their own words. Our reading of what Michael Sandel has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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   Our readingDemocracy needs citizens to share a common life, not perfect equality

   Their wordsDemocracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

   ↗What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)archive.org All 7 from this book