The Power of Market Fundamentalism
- ISBN-10
- 0674050711
- ISBN-13
- 9780674050716
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Margaret R. Somers, Fred Block
Description
What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.
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