Contents

Acknowledgements

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 the self-representation of Society

8    Markets as an ultimate social reality?

9    A multi-level model of capitalist dynamics

10    Conclusions

References

Index