| Description |
viii, 307 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox's brilliant exegesis. And all of the world's problems--widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty--are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its divine status can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity.-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Overview. The Market as god ; Sciences, regal and divine ; How the Market became divine ; How the Market creates people ; Biblical sources of conflict over usury and phishing ; Biblical sources of conflict over redistribution -- II. Disorders and infirmities. Top-heavy short circuits ; Big, big banks and big, big churches -- III. History : following the money. The bishop and the monk : Augustine and Pelagius ; Adam Smith : founder and patron saint? ; Adam Smith : theologian and prophet? ; Banker, philosopher, trickster, writer ; The Breath of God and the Market geist ; "Go ye into all the world" ; The liturgical year of the Market ; All desires known ; The Market and the end of the world ; Saving the soul of the Market. |
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Money market -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Financial institutions -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Economics -- Religious aspects.
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Religion (DE-588)4049396-9
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Marktwirtschaft (DE-588)4037653-9
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Ideologie (DE-588)4026486-5
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| ISBN |
9780674659681 (alk. paper) |
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0674659686 (alk. paper) |
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