The systemic anticulture of capitalism / Russell Hardin -- Tocqueville and the spirit of American capitalism / Richard Swedberg -- Income inequality and the Protestant ethic / Robert H. Frank -- On politicized capitalism / Victor Nee and Sonja Opper -- Law, economy, and globalization : Max Weber...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- The Hundred Years' Peace -- Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- ''Habitation versus Improvement'' -- Societies and Economic Systems -- Evolution of the Market Pattern -- The...

Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world--the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that, seeking to...