{"product_id":"the-illusion-of-choice-how-the-market-economy-shapes-our-destiny-9780791412664","title":"The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny","description":"The market economy attends well to some dimensions of human life and does not even see others. It is sensitive to those values pertaining to what can be bought and sold but is blind to others that cannot be turned into commodities, such as the integrity of the natural world and the quality of human relationships. The market registers the costs and benefits to transactors acting as social atoms but is impervious to the costs of tearing apart the larger wholes--families, communities, the biosphere--that are vital to the quality of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Illusion of Choice, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the market system unfolds according to a logic of its own, shaping everything within its domain--the landscape, social institutions, even human values--to serve its own inherent purposes. This understanding helps illuminate what has been most troubling to generations of Americans struggling to create a more humane society, and provides the conceptual tools by which we can become less the instruments of our powerful systems and more the masters of our destiny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is a powerful critique of the market, not couched in the Marxist economics of surplus value and exploitation, but drawing upon mainstream economics to shows how we all have a stake in making change. Schmookler sets out a program to help us humanize the market, not by overthrowing it but be correcting its biases, not by revolution but by strengthening the democratic process. Perhaps we can now add the most important choice to the abundance of choices the market provides us: the choice of developing into the kind of society we really want to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Bard Schmookler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.16w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791412664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Bard Schmookler\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age. He is the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut of Weakness: Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40509909270643,"sku":"9.78079E+12","price":60.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fd781df1-9e91-4b16-ad8e-0913f730b668.jpg?v=1665581274","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-illusion-of-choice-how-the-market-economy-shapes-our-destiny-9780791412664","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}