The Market as God / / Harvey Cox.
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 res...
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