Michael Sandel

Sandel has taught Justice at Harvard for decades to lecture halls of a thousand, and the filmed version has been watched by tens of millions, particularly in China and Japan, where he draws crowds usually reserved for musicians. What Money Can't Buy argues that markets have moved into areas where they corrode the thing being sold, from upgraded prison cells to paid queueing. The Tyranny of Merit contends that meritocracy is not a fair sorting but a story winners tell themselves, and that the resentment it breeds explains a good deal of recent politics.