A newspaper article (The Pursuit of Profits) which provides a brief summary of issues discussed at length in academic article below --

Another newspaper articles is Markets Versus Society

Editor Clive L. Spash has asked for an article on The Role of Markets: for Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society.

A shorter version of this article (4000 words) “The Limits of Market Economy,” entry in Encyclopedia of Islamic Economics,to appear [4151 words]

For a collection of articles on methodology of economics, see: Methodology & Logical Positivism

Published: Review of Islamic Economics, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2010, pp. 123–155.

The Rise and Fall of the Market Economy

March 2009:

Dr. Asad Zaman

asadzaman@alum.mit.edu

Abstract: The core economic functions of production and distribution of goods can be handled by many different methods. After the fall of communism, the market mechanism has become nearly universal. Conventional economic theories argue that this is natural, because it is the best and the most efficient method for organizing economic affairs in a society. This paper, based on the analysis of Polanyi (1944) and Klein (2008) argues that the opposite is true. Market mechanisms conflict with natural mechanisms for production and exchange in traditional societies. Unregulated markets cause tremendous damage, as can be witnessed today in terms of countless economic crises, wars, environmental destruction, as well as damage to social networks. Because of this damage, market societies can only be maintained by force, as well as disinformation. To resolve crises on myriad fronts caused by the unregulated market, it is the need of the hour to find viable alternatives.

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