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Table of Contents Foreword Overview Introduction World-views, economic conduct and social progress The authority of economic man The decline of economic man Part 1: The moralization of economic affairs The dynamics of modern societies The virtues of market conduct Encircling the concept of the moralization of the markets Part 2: The genealogy of markets: Why do markets exist? The social origins of the market Liberty as the daughter of markets The loss of freedom through freedom Homo rationalis Part 3: The competition among market conceptions The classical conception of the market The great transformation The neoclassical view of market behavior The unity of the market in its diversity The evolutionary perspective of the market The economy of love and fear Economies move societies Part 4: Markets as socio-cultural practices The critique and the practical usefulness of the standard model of the market Sociological views of the market The contradictory critique of the standard model of the market Social markets: Five stipulations Explicating the five stipulations Part 5: The foundations of the moralization of the markets Markets, biotechnology and environment Biotechnology products Environment and markets Modernity and morality The civilization of capitalism The logic of modernity The knowledge-based economy Part 6: The dawn of affluent societies Many are well off The poverty of affluence The advent of mass society The new dangers of prosperity Embeddedness and consumption Part 7. Knowledgeability and economic conduct Human capital Cultural capital Knowledge as a capacity to act Part 8: Biotechnologies, the environment and the market The commonalities of biotechnology and environment The market for biotechnological products and processes The empirical evidence The environment and the market The empirical evidence Part 9: The extension of the moral bases of economic conduct Economic growth and the moralization of the markets Globalization of the world The markets in an age of ecological and global modernization Conclusions and prospects Statistical appendix References Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Consumption (Economics).
Consumers -- Attitudes.
Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Capitalism -- Social aspects.
Social ethics.
Science -- Social aspects.
Environmental responsibility.
Business ethics.
Knowledge, Sociology of.