1. See Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, p. 4.
2. It should be noted that the absurdity of everything for sale reached the point that news agencies broadcast the 20-year-old Brazilian woman auctioning off her virginity online ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com /2012/10/24/catarina-migliorini-sells-virginity-780k_n_2010260. html#slide= 1682650); and in Hungry, lawmakers from Hungart’s populist ruling party have proposed to grant foreign nationals residency in exchange for purchasing of government bonds (see Margit Feher, ‘Hungary Offer Wealthy Foreigners Residency for Help on Debt’, Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2012, p. A11).
3. Robert Kuttner, 1997, p. 5.
4. Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, first edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
5. Ibid., p. 199.