Michael Sandel: Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life

Michael Sandel: Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life. Michael Sandel, October 8, 2013, Video. "In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends on how much money they have. (Three key examples: access to education, access to justice, political influence.) In a talk and audience discussion, Sandel asks us to think honestly on this question: In our current democracy, is too much for sale? Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard, exploring some of the most hotly contested moral and political issues of our time..."