Michael Sandel on What Shouldn't Be Sold
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The Importance of Freedom in a Morally Engaged Society
Many people construe the ability of a consumer to act out of his or her preferences in a marketplace to be freedom. I think that's a mistaken and an impoverished conception of freedom, he says. "The freedom of the citizen, civic freedom, as I would understand it, is a more demanding idea than consumerist or market freedom"
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