Books by Michael J. Sandel
Found 3 books
Commodification is a hot topic in recent philosophy. There’s a limitless market for books about the limits of markets. The question: Are there some things which you permissibly may possess, use, and give away, but which are wrong to buy and sell? Most authors who write about this say yes. Peter Jaworski and I say no. There are no inherent limits to markets. Everything you may give away you may sell, and everything you may take for free you may buy. We defend that thesis in our book Markets witho...
3. Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets . Deirdre McCloskey had a good review of that book here .
In my pile is Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (how many times has this book been written by now?), Kevin A. Clarke and David M. Primo, A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representation (philosophy of science), and Robert V. Dodge, Schelling’s Game Theory: How to Make Decisions .
1. David Linden, The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God . My standards for popular science books have tightened in the last ten years but this still exceeds them. A good rule of thumb is to read anything that comes from Belknap Press at Harvard, unless of course it is Michael Sandel’s question-begging critique of transhumanism and genetic engineering .