The market as god / Harvey Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Harvey, 1929- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money market--Moral and ethical aspects.

Money market.

Financial institutions--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Financial institutions.

Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Economics.

Economics--Religious aspects.

Financial institutions--Moral and ethical aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.

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

Contents:

Part I. Overview: The market as god

Theologians and economists

How the market became divine

How the market god creates people

Biblical sources of the conflict with the market god: usury and phishing

Biblical sources of the conflict with the market god II, a festival of redistribution, the jubilee year chapter

Part II. Disorders and infirmities: Top heavy short circuits

Big, big banks and big, big churches

Part 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" (or at least into every emerging market)

The liturgical year of the market god

All desires known

The market god and the end of the world

Saving the soul of the market.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674659681

0674659686

OCLC:

946579960