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Michael J. Sandel

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University

Harvard University

Areas of expertise

  • - Political Philosophy

Major works

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (2012); Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (2009); The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering (2007); Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics (2005); Democracy's Discontent (1996); and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982; 2nd ed., 1998).

About me

Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he teaches political philosophy. His course "Justice" has enrolled more than 15,000 Harvard students. Sandel's writings have been published in 21 languages.

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