Book Review: What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel

In this world of ours, we can buy almost everything. You can buy a separate cozy prison cell if you are rich enough. You can shoot an extinct rhino for the right kind of money, and you can purchase a homeless to queue for you to Congress so you can lobby your agendas. Sandel looks at our systems and argues that money corrupts the meaning of an act, that there shouldn’t be a price for everything, and that not every deed and act should be able to be bought.

The book’s premise is sound, and Sand...