The cult of the market: economic fundamentalism and its discontents

Abstract

Setting the Scene --The Creation of Social Order is Irreducibly a Moral Project --The Relationship Between the Economic System and the Social Order --A Brief Account of the Historical Origins of Economic Fundamentalism --A Critique of the Conceptual Foundations of Economic Fundamentalism --The Privileged Status of 'Science' --What, Then, Can We Say of the Status of Economics? --The Critique of Neoclassical Economics and its Influence on Policy Decisions --The Doctrine of Freedom of Contract --Some Normative Reflections.