Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness
Aune, an academic, sets out to "explain the way in which technical economic rhetoric has been allowed to trump the moral and culturalmeaningsof community, nature, work, and the market." The author, identifying himself as an old-fashioned socialist, investigates the strategies used to promote the emergence of the global free market since 1989 and explains what he considers the destructive impact that free-market economics has on the American character and community, citing labor organizing and family farms. His conclusions include the notion that communication cannot be reduced to the exchange of information without radically limiting the possibilities for humans to flourish, not just economically but also socially, culturally, and in every other way--and all free marketers end up with elements of irrationality in their systems. He also contends that the convergence of the ideologies of information and of the market has been facilitated by the globalization of capitalism, the collapse of socialism, and the rise of the Internet.Mary WhaleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.