Friday, October 25, 2013

Assignment for Tuesday, October 29

Read and annotate chapter 5 of Sandel's What Money Can't Buy. In class on Thursday, October 31, you will write about the book.

Click here to read more about the Wall Street Journal reports on "janitors insurance." These reports are posted on the web site of one of its reporters, Theo Francis. These reports received the 2002 George Polk Award for Financial Reporting. The George Polk Awards are among the most prestigious in journalism; its judges "place a premium on investigative and enterprise work that is original, requires digging and resourcefulness, and brings results."

Click here to read a libertarian critique of these insurance policies that focuses less on their ethics than on the federal government's role in promoting them.


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