Join us for this online public event with Michael Sandel who will be discussing his latest book,The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

In this new bookSandel argues that to overcome the polarised politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalisation and rising inequality. Sandel highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success - more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.

Michael Sandelteaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His writingson justice, ethics, democracy, and markets--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)

Sandels books relate enduring themes of political philosophy to the most vexing moral and civic questions of our time. They includeWhat Money Cant Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets;Justice: Whats the Right Thing to Do?; The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering; Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics; Democracys Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy; andLiberalism and the Limits of Justice.

You can order the book,The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop,Pages of Hackney.

Andrs Velasco (@AndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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The Tyranny of Merit: what's become of the common good? - The London School of Economics and Political Science