Sandel's Essay, What Isn T For Sale

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Sandel’s paper What Isn’t for Sale?, discusses inequality and corruption in the market economy,and its movement into nonmarket areas. Sandel proclaims, “in hopes of avoiding sectarian strife, we often insist that citizens leave their moral and spiritual convictions behind when they enter the public square. But the reluctance to admit arguments about the good life into politics has had an unanticipated consequence. It has helped prepare the way for market triumphalism”(394). Today almost anything can be bought or sold, and because of this the market has become corrupt . Easy accessibility to goods and services allow productivity to flourish, which in turn bolsters our economy. However, in order to keep up with the ever increasing demand for