"This book explores the intellectual history, nature, and consequences of commodification. While many use the term commodification, few realize that it was only introduced in the 1970s by Marxist scholars in Britain and the US. However, while Marxists initially used commodification to challenge...

"In this book, Ben Fine selects and adds to his key articles tracking economics imperialism through three phases, focusing on the last decade of the third phase - anything goes as with freakonomics. Each article is accompanied by a preamble setting the context in which it appeared, with a new...

Die Marktwirtschaft hat ihr Ziel, Überwindung der Not und Massenwohlstand, seit langem erreicht. So vollständig erreicht, daß die Konsumgesellschaft als ganze, empirisch belegt, durch weitere Wohlstandssteigerung nicht mehr zufriedener wird. Dennoch beharrt die Ökonomie auf dem Axiom der...