The Moral Limits of Markets

On Sunday, Tom Friedman's column talked about a new book by Harvard Professor Michael Sandel. In it, he looks at our cynicism and growing lack of civic engagement. Our stubborn refusal to engage in real discussion about real ideas. Secondly, he examines the ways in which markets have become the sine qua non of every aspect of the way we organize society. These two ideas, seemingly independent, but according to Sandel, are very much related to creating the mess we are in today.


My conversation with Michael Sandel about his book What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets:

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Justice

Every day we move further away from being a thoughtful society.  We have lost our sense of the responsibilities of citizenship.  In our sound bite infused culture, political extremism and the simplistic allure of pop culture have destroyed our ability to think, to reason and most of all to make sound moral judgments.  Michael Sandel has been working for over two decades to reverse this.  As one of Harvard's most popular professors, more than 12,000 students have taken his course JUSTICE to debate and try and reason through the big questions of political philosophy and moral judgments.

I recently spoke to Professor Sandel about his new book Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

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