Saturday, April 14, 2012

Teasing questions about pay

Harvard’s Michael Sandel has a programme running on Radio 4 in the spot which was earlier occupied by The Life Scientific.

The Public Philosopher
encourages an audience at the London School of Economics to dig deep into the issues which lie behind or under a question of our time. This week it was Should a banker be paid more than a nurse?

One young female contributor confessed that she could not understand why Wayne Rooney is paid so much.

That is because you call him a soccer player, teased the professor.