A Review of What Isn’t for Sale?
This article is written by Michael J. Sandal, a political philosopher at Harvard, is the author of What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.
Nowadays, we can buy almost everything, all depending on whether we have money. Michael thinks that money cannot buy everything, but these days, almost everything is for sale. Then he gives several examples to prove that money can buy everything, but not everyone is rich so appearing lots of new ways to make money, such as drug-safety trial and so on.
Michael tells us that the time we live in is changed, over the past decades, markets have come to govern our lives as never before. Market values were becoming to play more important role in our social life. The price of a commodity is not applied to material goods any more, the market is the main effect. The years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 were a heady time of market faith and deregulation—an era of market triumphalism. Someone contributes moral falling as the heart of triumphalism, it is a partial diagnosis, the most fateful
change was not an increase in greed during the past there decades, It was the reach of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life traditionally governed by nonmarket norms.
To resolve this condition, we need to do more than inveigh against greed; we need to be sure that where markets belong—and where they don’t. There are two reasons that why we worry our society is moving toward a society in which everything is up for sale.
First, we consider inequality; the second reason is the corrosive tendency of market.
Usually, when we decide to buy something, we treat them as commodities, as instruments of profit and use. But not all goods are properly valued in this way. The most obvious example is human being, there are moral and political questions ,not merely economic ones.
Lastly, Michael tell us that the difference between a market economy and a market society. The difference is this: A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organi
zing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavor. A debate about the moral limits of markets would enable us to decide where markets serve the public good and where they do not belong.
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