Disembedded markets : economic theology and global capitalism
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Disembedded markets : economic theology and global capitalism
（Classical and contemporary social theory）
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-144) and index
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Description
This book offers a sociological analysis of globalised capitalist markets, advancing the notion of 'disembedded markets' to challenge the idea of 'social embeddedness' common in economic sociology. Avoiding an exclusive focus on institutions, networks and trust relationships surrounding markets, the author concentrates on private property as the key institution of markets, in order to emphasise the historical origins of modern capitalism the free market narrative, and develop a socio-historical analysis of the disembedding process together with an account of the built-in contradictions and limits of market universalisation. Through an analysis of their encompassing character, this volume demonstrates that disembedded markets do not fit standard theoretical accounts of sociality - a problem taken up not only by Karl Marx, but also by Friedrich August von Hayek and Niklas Luhmann - and questions the attempts of the emerging approach of 'economic theology' to draw parallels between the practices that arise from disembedded markets and from forms of religious experience and ritual. A rigorous examination of the phenomenon of disembedded markets and the claims to which they give rise concerning the equivalences between religion and capitalism, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and economics with interests in capitalism, social theory, and global markets.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Disembedded markets and society: Ambiguities in Polanyi's analysis
3. Markets as a social system: The liberal narrative
4. Dimensions of disembedding
5. Religion as a self-representation of society
6. Modernity, capitalism and religion
7. Disembedding and the dilemma of self-representation of society
8. Markets as an ultimate social reality?
9. A multilevel model of capitalist dynamics
10. Conclusions
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