What Michael Sandel thinks about economists
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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Their wordsEconomists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not affect the goods they exchange. But this is untrue.
↗What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)archive.org All 7 from this book