The market's will be done

SINCE THE 1970s, as social critic Thomas Frank pointed out in "One Market Under God" (2000), post-Keynesian financial gurus have worked to convince us that the market is as all-knowing as God Himself. According to Mark C. Taylor, a distinguished professor of humanities at Williams College and Columbia University, the conflation of religion and economics isn't entirely rhetorical. In his ... (Full article: 509 words)

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