# What Money Can't Buy

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- Book: [What Money Can't Buy](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-j-sandel/what-money-cant-buy) ([What Money Can't Buy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-j-sandel/what-money-cant-buy.md))
- Authors: [Michael J. Sandel](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-j-sandel)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-448-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2013-05-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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?