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Author:   Andrew Bard Schmookler
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780791412664

ISBN 10:   0791412660
Pages:   363
Publication Date:   20 July 1993
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments CHOICES: AN INTRODUCTION Stranger in a Familiar Land Of Two Minds Is This the World We Want? Stranger in a Familiar Land Perestroika in America City on a Hill The Marxist Challenge On Beyond Marx Toward a New Critique How Dead Is This Horse? The Challenge Facing Us PART I: TUNNEL VISION: A RADICAL CRITIQUE OF THE MARKET 1. The Mythology of the Market The Myth of Efficiency The Case for Liberty 2. Questions of Power and Justice The Claim of Economic Democracy A Glimpse at the Real Problem of Power A Lesser, Libertarian Claim to Justice Minding Our Business Bringing the Externalities In 3. Missing Our Connections Small Change? A Whole Less Than the Sum of Its Parts Warring Against Community Divided We Fall 4. Reining In the Market Free People and Unchecked Power Systems A Mill that Grinds Slow but Fine Landscape Roulette Evils Lesser and Greater Can We Take Care of Us? Government Ltd. Corruptions of Pluralism Government for Sale The Possibility of Democracy Masters of Our Destiny 5. Devouring the Earth Worth What We Paid for It After the Horse Is Gone Profligate Heirs Corrective Lenses Don't Worry, Be Happy, or, Would You Buy a Used Planet from These People? 6. Not Just the Market Flattering Ourselves: The Mystery of Imitation The Problem of Power The Parable of the Tribes, or, The Imperatives of Power PART II: WE ARE DRIVEN: THE MARKET AS THE ENGINE OF CHANGE IN AMERICA 7. A Black Hole in American History Always Head North 8. The Will of the People Despite Objections Lip Service The Good Old Days Never Were 9. The Transformation of American Values The Worship of Success The Value of the Dollar The Case of the Vanishing Protestant Ethic A Civilization Out of Balance 10. In the Image of Our Creator North May be the Way to Go Other Dynamics of Change Beyond Free Will What's the Use? Getting Hold of the Steering Wheel PART III: OUT OF CONTROL 11. Autopilot The Problem A False Solution: The Ethic of Gesture Toward a Different Approach ""Let the Owners Decide"": A Proposal, with Exegisis Paramount Virtues 12. The Cult of Growth The Measure of Value The Wealth-Happiness Connection Limited Utility Unshakable Belief Machines Have Needs, Too Consumer as Cog Poverty and the Wealth of Nations 13. Power Struggle I. Driven to Excel Freedom or Necessity Spurious Necessities II. Imperatives of Survival National Economics in the Struggle for Survival Economics as Arms Race Mourning Lost Choices III. Seeking to Free Ourselves from the Trap of Necessity War on the Cheap The Displacement of War by World Order Choosing Together Treat a Problem as a Problem IV. Power in a World Free of Force The Imperatives of the Market Protection Wealth and Power in the Ordered Polity Buying Influence Breaking Free CONCLUSION: ENVISIONING THE GOOD LIFE A Meditation on Past, Present, and Future Romanticizing the Past Resurrecting Our Humanity The Girl Who Can't Dance Bigger Vision Notes Bibliography Index"

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Hundreds of books discuss the market, but none with this kind of criticism. No one else has written with this deep an insight. Schmookler provides an extraordinarily deep, broad, and insightful analysis of the social, political, and moral consequences for our civilization of our dependence on the market system. With elegance of language, he shows how the market presents the illusion of choice while its dynamics determine our mores and our behavior in deep and long-lasting ways. Lester Milbrath, State University of New York at Buffalo I found this work a pleasure to read in several respects: its fine writing, both clear and engaging; its point of attack on the main institution of industrial society, the market; the drawing of difficult and often overlooked implications of the market; and the attempt to address the hoary but necessary issue of the manner of social change for advanced industrial society. Joel Jay Kassiola, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Hundreds of books discuss the market, but none with this kind of criticism. No one else has written with this deep an insight. Schmookler provides an extraordinarily deep, broad, and insightful analysis of the social, political, and moral consequences for our civilization of our dependence on the market system. With elegance of language, he shows how the market presents the illusion of choice while its dynamics determine our mores and our behavior in deep and long-lasting ways. -- Lester Milbrath, State University of New York at Buffalo I found this work a pleasure to read in several respects: its fine writing, both clear and engaging; its point of attack on the main institution of industrial society, the market; the drawing of difficult and often overlooked implications of the market; and the attempt to address the hoary but necessary issue of the manner of social change for advanced industrial society. -- Joel Jay Kassiola, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

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Andrew Bard Schmookler is Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age. He is the author of a number of books, including The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution and Out of Weakness: Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War.

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