Michael Sandel | Harvard University - Department of Government Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government On Leave Spring 2014 Michael J. Sandel's work has been translated into 23 languages. At Harvard, Sandel’s courses include "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," "Ethics, Economics, and Law," and "Globalization and Its Critics." A recipient of the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Sandel was recognized by the American Political Science Association in 2008 for a career of excellence in teaching. From 2002 to 2005, Sandel served on the President's Council on Bioethics.
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Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning' Something curious happened when I tried to potty train my two-year-old recently. To begin with, he was very keen on the idea. I'd read that the trick was to reward him with a chocolate button every time he used the potty, and for the first day or two it went like a breeze – until he cottoned on that the buttons were basically a bribe, and began to smell a rat. By day three he refused point-blank to go anywhere near the potty, and invoking the chocolate button prize only seemed to make him all the more implacable. Even to a toddler's mind, the logic of the transaction was evidently clear – if he had to be bribed, then the potty couldn't be a good idea – and within a week he had grown so suspicious and upset that we had to abandon the whole enterprise. It's a pity I hadn't read What Money Can't Buy before embarking, because the folly of the chocolate button policy lies at the heart of Michael Sandel's new book. I would, I agree. I don't think that would convince a hardliner at all.
What Money Can't Buy - the moral limit of markets - 05 - 2012 St Paul's Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science and JustShare public debate Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012 Time: 6.30-8pm Venue: St Paul's Cathedral, EC4M 8AD |Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel Discussants: Stephanie Flanders, Professor Julian Le Grand, Rt Revd Peter Selby Chair: Ann Pettifor Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? Noted public philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Michael J. Stephanie Flanders has been a reporter at the New York Times (2001); a speech writer and senior advisor to the US Treasury Secretary (1997-2001); a Financial Times leader-writer and columnist (1993-7); and an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and London Business School. Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. Ann Pettifor is director of Policy Research in Macro-Economics (PriME), and a senior fellow of the New Economics Foundation. Podcast & Video
The Public Philosopher - Should a banker be paid more than a nurse? - 03 - 2012 LSE and BBC Radio 4 public event Date: Thursday 8 March 2012 Time: 5.45-7pm Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel In a series of 3 public events on 8 and 9 March at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) being recorded for radio, Michael Sandel professor of political philosophy at Harvard and one of the university's most popular lecturers will challenge his audience to apply critical thinking to the sort of ethical dilemmas most people rely on gut instinct to resolve. Michael Sandel's lectures to Harvard undergraduates are so popular that students have to be turned away. The lectures are challenging and interactive. Audience members are asked to raise their hands in response to a series of questions about their attitudes to a political issue of the day. An antidote to the "yah-boo" debate of party politics, Sandel's lectures will be profound as well as entertaining.
What Money Can’t Buy Michael Sandel on a society where everything could be up for sale. Photo courtesy of the Wikimedia Commons Author Michael Sandel’s new book What Money Can’t Buy is troubling in the best sense of the word—it “troubles” the complacency with which Americans have received the rapid encroachment of the market into private life. In his book, Sandel explains in both intellectual and historical terms how expansionist ideas of the role of economics coincided with the Reaganite elevation of lassiez-faire principles into something like a religion. Sandel’s book provides a framework that challenges readers to see the world differently. Sandel is a professor at Harvard and his course “Justice” is one of the most widely attended in that school’s history (he has taught it to over 15,000 students). Sandel jumps in to answer questions readily, as though used to being put on the spot, and his voice is roughened, as though from years of inciting debate with a room full of students. Michael Sandel: I see.
What Money Can't Buy - Michael Sandel Synopsis Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life-medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?