The Market as God /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Cox, Harvey,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • I. Overview
  • 1. The Market as God
  • 2. Sciences, Regal and Divine
  • 3. How The Market Became Divine
  • 4. How The Market Creates People
  • 5. Biblical Sources of Conflict over Usury and Phishing
  • 6. Biblical Sources of Conflict over Re distribution
  • II. Disorders and Infirmities
  • 7. Top–Heavy Short Circuits
  • 8. Big, Big Banks And Big, Big Churches
  • III. History: Following The Money
  • 9. The Bishop and The Monk: Augustine and Pelagius
  • 10. Adam Smith: Founder and Patron Saint?
  • 11. Adam Smith: Theologian and Prophet?
  • 12. Banker, Philosopher, Trickster, Writer
  • 13. The Breath Of God and The Market Geist
  • 14. “Go Ye Into All the World”
  • 15. The Liturgical Year of The Market
  • 16. All Desires Known
  • 17. The Market and the End of the World
  • 18. Saving the Soul of The Market
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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