{"id":38723,"date":"2013-06-15T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_marketplace_with_harvards_michael_sandel-when_nearly_everything_is_com\/"},"modified":"2013-06-15T20:28:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T20:28:34","slug":"npr_marketplace_with_harvards_michael_sandel-when_nearly_everything_is_com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38723","title":{"rendered":"NPR Marketplace with Harvard&#39;s Michael Sandel&#8211;When Nearly Everything is Commodified, what is lost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to know the costs of all this buying and lusting for more, so we flew to Boston to talk with Harvard professor Michael Sandel. He wrote &#8220;What Money Can\u2019t Buy, The Moral Limits of Markets.&#8221; It tells the story of how we\u2019ve gone from having a market economy, to being a market society where everything is for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Sandel points out all sorts of ways money has changed the game [of baseball]. One of them, the way corporate sponsorship has worked its way into the very language of the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The insurance company New York Life,&#8221; he says, &#8220;has a deal with several teams that requires announcers to say the following line whenever there\u2019s a close call at the plate: &#8216;Safe at home. Safe and secure, New York Life.&#8217;\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/topics\/sustainability\/consumed\/how-much-enough\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to know the costs of all this buying and lusting for more, so we flew to Boston to talk with Harvard professor Michael Sandel. He wrote &#8220;What Money Can\u2019t Buy, The Moral Limits of Markets.&#8221; It tells the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38723\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,209,175,174,582,589,149,168,184,593,129,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-apologetics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}