American politicians and policymakers tend to hold certain truths as self-evident-that the "free market" should be permitted to control as much of our lives and society as possible, and that the proper role of government is to get out of the market's way. In this book, Howard Brody challenges these so-called truths. He shows first that this way of thinking constitutes a belief system called economism. He next demonstrates that while economism claims to be a set of hard-headed scientific facts, it actually functions as a system of religious or quasi-religious beliefs. He finally traces the...
American politicians and policymakers tend to hold certain truths as self-evident-that the "free market" should be permitted to control as much of our...