If Seth Godin didn't exist, we'd need to invent him

Seth Godin is a demigod on the web, a bestselling author, highly sought-after lecturer, successful entrepreneur, respected pundit and high-profile blogger

A wonderful manifesto in the author's characteristic style - pathological honesty, ruthless scepticism and generous intellect. The Icarus Deception turns society upside-down in order to awaken the reader's rebellious spirit and encourage him to create

Khoi Tu is the most visionary among visionaries

Products, companies and organisations that are brilliant, fun and deliver on their promise often look super-simple to the outside world, but the detail and speed happening behind the scenes is frightening. To achieve this, let alone keep it going, requires the right team and leadership, good, solid relationships, plus a little bit of magic. For me this is what this book is all about - it shows what people can do in different scenarios, especially when the going gets tough and there's a goal to be achieved. Nice one Khoi

What Money Can't Buy selected by the Guardian as a literary highlight for 2012

America's best-known contemporary political philosopher ... the most famous professor in the world right now... the man is an academic rock star [but] instead of making it all serious and formidable, Sandel makes it light and easy to grasp

An exquisitely reasoned, skillfully written treatise on big issues of everyday life

Sandel is probably the world's most relevant living philosopher

Mr Sandel is pointing out [a] quite profound change in society

Provocative and intellectually suggestive ... amply researched and presented with exemplary clarity, [it] is weighty indeed - little less than a wake-up call to recognise our desperate need to rediscover some intelligible way of talking about humanity

Brilliant, easily readable, beautifully delivered and often funny ... an indispensable book

Entertaining and provocative

Poring through Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel's new book ... I found myself over and over again turning pages and saying, "I had no idea." I had no idea that in the year 2000 ... "a Russian rocket emblazoned with a giant Pizza Hut logo carried advertising into outer space," or that in 2001, the British novelist Fay Weldon wrote a book commissioned by the jewelry company Bulgari ... I knew that stadiums are now named for corporations, but had no idea that now "even sliding into home is a corporate-sponsored event" ... I had no idea that in 2001 an elementary school in New Jersey became America's first public school "to sell naming rights to a corporate sponsor"

A vivid illustration ... Let's hope that What Money Can't Buy, by being so patient and so accumulative in its argument and its examples, marks a permanent shift in these debates

In a culture mesmerised by the market, Sandel's is the indispensable voice of reason ... if we ... bring basic values into political life in the way that Sandel suggests, at least we won't be stuck with the dreary market orthodoxies that he has so elegantly demolished

What Money Can't Buy is replete with examples of what money can, in fact, buy ... Sandel has a genius for showing why such changes are deeply important

Michael Sandel ... is currently the most effective communicator of ideas in English

Sandel, the most famous teacher of philosophy in the world, has shown that it is possible to take philosophy into the public square without insulting the public's intelligence

A book that can persuade people that the rules of the economy don't just reflect our values, they help to determine them

Fascinating exploration of the alarming encroachment of market philosophy on so many aspects of our lives