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The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed. It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.

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Michael Sandel
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 3
Pedagogue
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Michael J. Sandel
Michael Joseph Sandel
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