Summary Of Sandel's 'What Money Can T Buy'

In this text “What money can’t buy’’ Sandel faces one of the highest ethical issues of our time and provokes a debate which was absent in our age obsessed with money: what is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how do you protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not respect and that money cannot buy?
As a matter of facts, from his perspective in recent decades marketers have been able to supplant the market logic in almost every area of our life: medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and relationships personal. Market logic invaded spheres of life that in the past were barred.
Almost without realizing it, argues Sandel, we are gone from “having a market economy to being a market

He is criticizing the market society because it has become a place where everything is on sale, and in the text he lists some examples, like jumping the queue or providing surrogate uterus, or paying people for let them provide organs or blood, sell the right of residence... those are only some cases of invasion of the market logic. Nothing seems to be saved from money.
But is it right to have everything on sale nowadays? Is it acceptable?
Sandel answer to these questions by focusing on democracy, and hence on the equality of humans, as well as on corruption.
When democracy itself is dominated by the logic of the market money dominates everything, even in the social life, as election and future political campaign.
But also, a healthy and vibrant democracy requires citizens to share their time together and meet in public places. The failure of this common space, the growing separation between rich and poor, together with the increase in inequality causes a threat to democracy.
It is interesting to see how different is the vision of Sandel from the one of

This case study actually surprised me in some ways, because in the first chapter he compares what he believes is an “uncivilized behavior”, such as jumping a queue, or the withdraw of children late after school, donate money instead of wedding gifts, with very serious humanitarian problems as the one-child policy in China, the sale of organs, economic incentives for sterilization, trade in pollution permits, bets on the prospects of life and death of the elderly. I consider these examples very different and impossible to