1st Edition
Disembedded Markets Economic Theology and Global Capitalism
1. Introduction
2. Disembedded markets and society: Ambiguities in Polanyi’s analysis
3. Markets as a social system: The liberal narrative
4. Dimensions of disembedding
5. Religion as a self-representation of society
6. Modernity, capitalism and religion
7. Disembedding and the dilemma of self-representation of society
8. Markets as an ultimate social reality?
9. A multilevel model of capitalist dynamics
10. Conclusions
Biography
Christoph Deutschmann is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Sociology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/M, at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center for Social Research in. His research interests and publications are in the fields of economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social theory.
