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Everything for Sale

Robert Kuttner

Zeroing in on such realms as health care and the workplace, the commercialization of sports and the arts, the chaotic deregulation of airlines, S&Ls, and telecommunications, and the buying and selling of public offices, Kuttner shows how markets can fail precisely those whom they are supposed to serve. Asking the crucial question, "What should not be for sale?", Kuttner shows why a society conceived as a grand auction block would not be a democracy worth having. 416 pp. Author tour. 25,000 print.

Politics & GovernmentPolitics & Government · medium confidencePolitics & Government81 signalsLlm Classifier: Politics & Government -> Politics & GovernmentAward Category: Hillman Prize for Book Journalism -> Journalism & ReportageKeyword Classifier: Journalism & Reportage -> Journalism & ReportageDemocracy & ElectionsLabor, Work & OrganizingMedicine, Health & the BodyMoney, Markets & Economic Policy

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Hillman Prize for Book Journalism1998WinnerOfficial source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Markets can fail precisely the people they are supposed to serve, so a society treating core public goods as an auction block would not be a democracy worth having.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 55%.