Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption (Religion and Postmodernism Series)

by Mark C Taylor (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $33.88

  Posits that money and markets do not exist in a vacuum but grow in a cultural medium, reflecting and in turn shaping their world. This book explores the historical and psychological origins of money, the importance of religious beliefs and practices for emergence of markets, and the unexpected role of religion in the understanding of economics.