What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

In 'What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets,' Michael J. Sandel argues that over the past three decades, markets and market values have expanded into spheres of life where they do not belong.

He contends that this shift has degraded certain moral and civic goods, such as altruism, generosity, and civic spirit, which are not commodities that can be bought or sold.

Sandel critiques the prevailing ideology that places faith in markets as the primary means for achieving the public good and advocates for a public debate on keeping markets in their place to protect the moral and civic values that money cannot buy.