Moral markets
Subtitle: how knowledge and affluence change consumerism and products
By: Nico Stehr.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594514562
Subjects: Consumption (Economics); Consumers -- Attitudes; Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Capitalism -- Social aspects; Social ethics; Science -- Social aspects; Environmental responsibility; Business ethics; Knowledge, Sociology of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Overview; title: Introduction: world-views, economic conduct and social progress; title: The authority of economic man; title: The decline of economic man; title: The moralization of economic affairs; title: The dynamics of modern societies; title: The virtues of market conduct; title: Encircling the concept of the moralization of the markets; title: The genealogy of markets: why do markets exist?; title: The social origins of the market; title: Liberty as the daughter of markets; title: The loss of freedom through freedom; title: Homo rationalis; title: The competition among market conceptions; title: The classical conception of the market; title: The great transformation; title: The neoclassical view of market behavior; title: The unity of the market in its diversity; title: The evolutionary perspective of the market; title: The economy of love and fear; title: Economies move societies; title: Markets as socio-cultural practices; title: The critique and the practical usefulness of the standard model of the market; title: Sociological views of the market; title: The contradictory critique of the standard model of the market; title: Social markets: five stipulations; title: Explicating the five stipulations; title: The foundations of the moralization of the markets; title: Markets, biotechnology and environment; title: Biotechnology products; title: Environment and markets; title: Modernity and morality; title: The civilization of capitalism; title: The logic of modernity; title: The knowledge-based economy; title: The dawn of affluent societies; title: Many are well off; title: The poverty of affluence; title: The advent of mass society; title: The new dangers of prosperity; title: Embeddedness and consumption; title: Knowledgeability and economic conduct; title: Human capital; title: Cultural capital; title: Knowledge as a capacity to act; title: Biotechnologies, the environment and the market; title: The commonalities of biotechnology and environment; title: The market for biotechnological products and processes; title: The empirical evidence; title: The environment and the market; title: The empirical evidence; title: The extension of the moral bases of economic conduct; title: Economic growth and the moralization of the markets; title: Globalization of the world; title: The markets in an age of ecological and global modernization; title: Conclusions and prospects; title: Statistical appendix; title: References; title: Index.