Abstract

Pasak Michaelo Sandelo, pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais mes esame savo mąstymo ir elgesio pokyčių liudininkai. Tiksliau sakant, mes imame vis daugiau mąstyti ekonomikos terminais ir imame parduoti ir pirkti daug daugiau dalykų. Sandelas, kurio manymu, tai kelia nerimą, pateikia du argumentus: (1) nelygybės ir teisingumo argumentą, teigiantį, jog tokios praktikos perduoda nelygybes, ir (2) iškraipymo argumentą, teigiantį, jog tokios praktikos iškraipo perkamo ar parduodamo dalyko prigimtį. Šiame straipsnyje parodoma, kad nė vienas iš šių argumentų neveikia taip, kaip Sandelas sumanęs, ir kad geranoriškas skaitymas leidžia aptikti ir implicitinį trečiajį argumentą, tačiau ir jis neveikia. Straipsnis baigiamas trumpai aptariant du argumentus, kurie turi potencialo pagrįsti Sandelo nuomonę, tačiau jis palieka juos neišplėtotus.

Highlights

  • Even though Michael Sandel’s latest book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets seems to be aimed towards more general public rather than academic philosophers, it is still a book worthy of attention from academic philosophers due to the nature of Sandel’s arguments, which aim to make a point about the morality of current market practices

  • Dubner titled Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) where the authors apply economic methods to uncover the reasons for certain changes in the society or certain patterns of human behaviour

  • This is supposed to demonstrate the inadequacy of economic thinking when applied to situations which call for people to do their “civic duty”, but it seems to me that Sandel makes an assumption here that he is not entitled to

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Summary

Introduction

Even though Michael Sandel’s latest book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets seems to be aimed towards more general public rather than academic philosophers, it is still a book worthy of attention from academic philosophers due to the nature of Sandel’s arguments, which aim to make a point about the morality of current market practices. The aim of my paper is to briefly examine the main points and arguments Sandel makes in the book and consider some objections to them, as well as pointing out the parts of his book with a little bit more potential

The Extended Application of Economic Thinking
Inequality and Fairness
The Corruption Argument
Inadequacy of Market Thinking
Skyboxification and the Pervasive Nature of Advertisements
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