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12 Jun 2009

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BBC

Reith Lectures - A New Citizenship - Michael Sandel

The theme of this year's Reith Lectures is A New Citizenship and they are delivered by political philosopher and Harvard University professor, Michael Sandel...In the wake of the global financial crisis, he considers the expansion of markets into areas once the preserve of the state: prisons, schools, and hospitals and more controversially, the global trade in kidneys and other body parts for transplantation. He ponders the question, are there some things which money can't or shouldn't buy?