What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets *

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Author: Michael J. Sandel

Book length: 256 pages

Excerpt: Cash incentives work better at getting people to show up for a specific event—a doctor’s appointment or an injection—than at changing long-term habits and behaviors.

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3 questions
1. According to the supplied notes from Sandel, why are some things argued to be inappropriate to treat as commodities (i.e., things money shouldn’t buy)?
2. What general effect of monetary incentives do the notes report based on the studies mentioned?
3. How do the "fairness" and "corruption" objections to markets differ in the notes' summary?
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