The success of an economic system depends on its having a strong basis of legitimacy in society. For much of the twentieth century, the legitimacy of "American capitalism" was based on the public belief that it would most rapidly and successfully advance the economic progress of the American...

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword by Max Stackhouse -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- Part: ONE THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- One: Tenets of Economic Faith -- Two: A Secular Great Awakening...

In the past 30 years, community associations and other forms of collective ownership of residential property have spread across the United States, now meeting the housing needs of about 15 percent of all Americans. In almost all cases, the collective ownership instruments have been established...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- part ONE THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- ONE Tenets of Economic Faith -- TWO A Secular Great Awakening -- part TWO THEOLOGICAL MESSAGES OF SAMUELSON’S ECONOMICS -- THREE The Market Mechanism...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The Market Paradox -- Part ONE. THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS AS THE NEW WORD OF GOD -- ONE Tenets of Economic Faith -- TWO A Secular Great Awakening -- Part TWO. THEOLOGICAL MESSAGES OF SAMUELSON’S ECONOMICS -- THREE The Market Mechanism...