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The market as god
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Title
The market as god / Harvey Cox.
ISBN
9780674659681 (alk. paper)
0674659686 (alk. paper)
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Physical 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
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 26, 2017
Bibliography
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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