Anxious Wealth analyzes practices of network building and deal-making among wealthy businessmen and government officials in urban China, documenting the changing values, lifestyles, gender relations, and consumption habits of China's new rich and new middle classes.

What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it? What are the main objections to capitalism that have been raised by its critics? Are there moral reasons to support capitalism, or to oppose it? In this time of globalization and economic turbulence, these questions could not be...

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...