"What Money Can Buy" by Raghuram Rajan | Project Syndicate
In an interesting recent book, the Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel points to the range of things that money can buy in modern societies and gently tries to stoke our outrage at the market’s growing dominance. Is he right that we should be alarmed?
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