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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Market thinking has quietly spread into nearly every realm of social life, posing a challenge for society today.
Chapter 3: The ascendancy of market thinking carries significant implications for social justice.
Chapter 4: Though market thinking can effectively guide people’s behavior, not everything ought to be bought and sold today.
Chapter 5: Bringing market norms into new realms can cause unintended, unfortunate, and very serious irreversible consequences.
Chapter 6: Economists remain insufficiently attuned to the moral questions market thinking raises today.
Chapter 7: Contrary to economic theory, altruism should be nurtured so people can expand their capacity for it.
Chapter 8: We must judge, case by case, whether the benefits of market-thinking–inspired policies outweigh the moral concerns we face.
Chapter 9: We need a robust public debate on where market thinking belongs in our society today.
Description
The blinks to What Money Can´t Buy (2013) explain how market-driven thinking – like the introduction of incentives and making everything available for a price – has snuck into almost every sphere of our lives. This means we are often suddenly confronted by serious moral concerns when market morality manifests itself in an area where it doesn’t belong.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in economics, morality and the way they intersect
- Anyone interested in a critique of the market-driven thinking that has gone unquestioned for three decades
- Anyone who has a view on what kind of society they want to live in
- Anyone who believes everything should be for sale