Markets Against Modernity - Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private

Economist Ryan Murphy explains divergences between popular and informed opinion on the value of the institutions of the modern world, including globalized markets, science, and pluralism. The public expresses hostility for these institutions both in the voting booth and in their private lives, and even through the marketplace itself.

List of contents

Chapter 1, Trade Is Good
Chapter 2, "Extreme Voter Stupidity"
Chapter 3, The Obvious and Simple System of Unnatural Liberty
Chapter 4, Ecological Irrationality in the Wild
Chapter 5, Bohemian Status-archy
Chapter 6, Anarchy, State, and Dystopia,
Chapter 7, Too Much Social Capital
Chapter 8, The Poverty of DIYism
Chapter 9, Social Luddism
Chapter 10, Whither Expertise?

About the author

By Ryan H. Murphy

Summary

Economist Ryan Murphy explains divergences between popular and informed opinion on the value of the institutions of the modern world, including globalized markets, science, and pluralism. The public expresses hostility for these institutions both in the voting booth and in their private lives, and even through the marketplace itself.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan H. Murphy
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498591188
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9118-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics; Capitalist Thought: Studies in
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; Austrian Economics, Behavioral Economics, Conspicuous Consumption, Evolutionary Psychology, Folk Economics, Free Trade, Neoliberalism, Political Economy, Public Choice, Rent-Seeking