Full title: Moral markets : how knowledge and affluence change consumerism and products / Nico Stehr.

Author/creator: Stehr, Nico.

Call Numbers: N306.3/ 102

Record Identifier: 74VK3EM52OgM

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xviii, 269 p., Foreword -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Knowledgeability and economic conduct -- Human capital -- Cultural capital -- Knowledge as a capacity to act -- 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 -- 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.

Publishers: Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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DDC: 306.3

MMS ID: 991023810379702626