Events
Prof. Michael Sandel on "What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets"
11 Mar 2016
7:00pm
Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, CUHK
Prof. Michael Sandel
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His book Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? relates the big questions of political philosophy to the most vexing issues of our time. An international bestseller, it is one of the most widely read books of political philosophy in recent decades. Sandel’s latest book, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, challenges us to rethink the role that money and markets should play in our lives. Reviewers have called it a “brilliant, indispensable book on the relationship between morality and economics,” and “an eloquent argument for morality in public life.” Described by the Guardian as “the man who is currently the most effective communicator of ideas in English,” Sandel’s books and online lectures have brought him “the kind of popularity usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars and NBA players.”(China Daily) His recent lecture tours have taken him across five continents, packing such venues as St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), the Sydney Opera House (Australia), and an outdoor amphitheater in Seoul, Korea, where 14,000 people came to hear him speak.
Due to the overwhelming response, tickets of Sir Run Run Shaw Hall were fully subscribed.
Simultaneous live-stream will be available at the Lady Shaw Building.
Registration starts from 10:00am on Friday 4 March, 2016 at: http://bit.ly/SandelCUHKlivestream
For enquiries, please contact Research Centre for Human Values
Tel : 3943 7001
The event will see the public philosopher, Michael Sandel, deliver a lecture entitled ‘What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets’, based on his New York Timesbestselling book of the same name. In the book, Sandel takes up some of the biggest ethical questions of our time:isn’t there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong? what are the moral limits of markets?
Prof. Sandel will challenge the audience with ethical dilemmas, grounded in economics. For example: should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs?
