Michael J. Sandel

Wednesday, February 27, 7 p.m.

The venue has been CHANGED from the University of Utah Union to Kingsbury Hall. The event is still free and open to the public, but tickets are required and can be obtained through the Kingsbury Hall box office (801-581-7100).

The Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah presents the Tanner Lecture on Human Values with Michael Sandel, "Casino Capitalism: Gambling, Investing, and the Ethics of Speculation." Sandel is the author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? and more recently, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.

Dr. Michael Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? and most recently, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, which was published in April 2012. He is well-known for his popular “Justice” course, the first Harvard class to be made freely available online and on public television. Over 15,000 students have filled his classroom to hear his discussions of Justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship.

The Tanner Lecture on Human Values is a distinguished series that instigates educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. The Lectures are held annually at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Michigan, Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, University of Utah, University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge.

For information about past Tanner Lectures, please click here.

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Author, Michael Sandel Speaks About His New Book "What Money Can't Buy" Reception followed by lunch and program

This is not a free event:

Harvard Members & Guests $35, Non-members $40

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How far can market values go? How far should they go? Should students be paid for good grades? Is money fair compensation for subjects who risk their health in drug studies? Sandel, the Harvard government professor whose popular course on Justice led to the influential book on the same topic, seeks to define the proper role of markets in a democratic society.

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