Michael Sandel

What Money Can’t Buy, or, The Moral Limits of Markets, is a book by the American economist Michael J. Sandel. Actually, the book is about things that money can buy in the US and elsewhere today but shouldn’t.

Some questions the book deals with:

• Is it ethical to pay $150,000 to shoot an endangered black rhino?
• Should people rent out their bodies for advertising?
• Should investors be allowed to buy people’s life insurances so they will profit from their deaths?

Needless to say that all these things are already happening. But is it what business and money were created for?