THE ECLIPSE OF MORALITY: SCIENCE, STATE AND MARKETBusch’s

Glenn L. Johnson

A chapter in A Research Annual, 2005, pp 209-227 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Busch focuses on what he regards as the three broad causes of immorality in the modern world: scientism, statism, and marketism. He views these three “isms” pejoratively and originating respectively with Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith. Each is treated as a “leviathan” spewing immorality from its multiple heads in the form ofundue faithin thethree different kinds of social orderthey generate.

Date: 2005
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