如果《正義》鍛練了你的思辨能力，那麼，《錢買不到的東西》將讓你明白自己真正想要的！

當金錢買不到的東西愈來愈少， 
我們面對的，不只是財富的分配不公， 
而是必須去思考市場的極限，以及我們要選擇怎樣的人生！

當每樣東西都能買賣，是否有錢就有了天壤之別？ 
當生命中各種美好事物都被標上價格，事物的價值也跟著變質了？

三十年前，沒有人認為： 
囚犯只要付費，就可以升等住進好的牢房； 
病患只要多付費，可以獲得醫師的手機號碼，全年無休醫療諮詢； 
役男不想當兵，政府可以花錢請外國傭兵去打仗； 
富國的獵人只要付費，可以射殺瀕臨絕種的非洲黑犀牛。 
然而如今，這一切都已成真。

金錢交易的市場機制，已經滲透到日常生活的各面向，大舉侵入了原本非屬市場的領域。從健康醫療、教育、法律、政治到人際關係，一旦事物變成了「商品」，就會失去某個很重要的「什麼」。過去我們不曾關注過這個問題，但也許這個「什麼」，正是建構一個美好社會所不可或缺的。

桑德爾教授提醒，我們應該自問：世上有什麼東西是無論如何都不該用錢去買的？我們也必須決定，應該以什麼樣的價值來管理社會及公民生活的各領域。當今的市場機制已與道德脫鉤，而我們需要將兩者重新連結起來－－面對金錢的蔓延，我們必須選擇，如何劃定正義的防線，以守護我們都渴求實現的美好生活！

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?

In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life-medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society.

In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?