Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-260) and indexes.
Contents:
Preface -- Overview -- Introduction -- World-views, economic conduct, and social progress -- The authority of economic man -- The decline of economic man -- The moralization of economic affairs -- The dynamics of modern societies -- The virtues of market conduct -- Encircling the concept of the moralization of the markets -- 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 -- 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 -- Markets as sociocultural practices -- The critique and the practical usefulness of the standard model of the market -- Sociological perspectives -- The contradictory critique of the standard model of the market -- Social markets: five stipulations -- Explicating the five stipulations -- 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 modern economy -- The dawn of affluent societies -- Many are well off -- The poverty of affluence -- The advent of mass society -- The new dangers of prosperity -- Mass consumption -- The embedded consumer -- Knowledgeability and economic conduct -- Human capital -- Cultural capital -- Knowledge as a capacity to act -- Biotechnology, environment, and the market -- The commonalities of biotechnology and the environment -- The market for biotechnological processes and products -- The empirical evidence -- The environment and the market -- The empirical evidence -- The extension of the moral bases of economic conduct -- Economic growth and the moralization of the markets -- The globalization of the world -- Markets in an age of ecological and global modernization -- Conclusions and prospects -- Statistical appendix -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.
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