Michael Sandel is an internationally renowned political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University.

Professor Sandel’s on justice, ethics, democracy, markets, and higher education have been translated into 27 languages. His course “Justice” is the first Harvard course to be made freely available online and on television.  It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the “most influential foreign figure of the year.” (China Newsweek)

Sandel’s books relate enduring themes of political philosophy to the most vexing moral and civic questions of our time.  They include Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? ,What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets;  Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?;  The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering;  Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics;  Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy; and Liberalism and the Limits of Justice.