{"id":4512,"date":"2012-06-04T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2012-06-04T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T08:09:00","slug":"what-money-can-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-money-can-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Money Can Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060112_0811_WhatMoneyCa1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Centives has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/in-economics-we-trust\/\">previously mentioned<\/a> Michael Sandel&#8217;s book: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0374203032\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0374203032&amp;adid=1Y6P41MF1DACVQTFJY5R&amp;\">What Money Can&#8217;t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets<\/a>. Thomas Friedman looked at some notable examples in the book of how &#8220;we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2001, Fay Weldon, a British novelist, was paid \u00a318,000 by Bulgari to write a novel which mentioned the jewelry company at least 12 times. (It has a 3.8 star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0802139302\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=0802139302&amp;adid=04F76YNZN6SCGCNBJRDE&amp;\">rating<\/a> on Amazon.)<\/li>\n<li>You can pay Pete Ross, a disgraced baseball player, $299 (plus shipping and handling), to send you an autographed baseball with the words &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry I bet on baseball&#8221; inscribed on it.<\/li>\n<li>An elementary school in New Jersey sold naming rights to its gym for $100,000 to ShopRite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read Friedman&#8217;s entire review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/friedman-this-column-is-not-sponsored-by-anyone.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/friedman-this-column-is-not-sponsored-by-anyone.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/05\/markets-in-everything-27.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centives has previously mentioned Michael Sandel&#8217;s book: What Money Can&#8217;t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Thomas Friedman looked at some notable examples in the book of how &#8220;we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society&#8221; In 2001, Fay Weldon, a British novelist, was paid \u00a318,000 by Bulgari to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060112_0811_WhatMoneyCa1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4512\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}