"We know money can't buy us love, but in a market-driven age it seems capable of buying just about everything else. Professor of Government at Harvard University and author of the international best seller "Justice", Sandel is clearly alarmed at how much market thinking has permeated areas where such valuation seems wholly unwarranted, from medicine, education, and sports to the arts and personal relationships. Should we really pay kids to get good grades, or establish for-profit prisons, or sell citizenship to those who can afford it? The shift from having a market economy to being a market society, as Sandel would have it, seems to have coarsened our sensibilities and raises real ethical issues. Perhaps the publisher's top nonfiction title for the year; great book-club discussion." (Library Journal)
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