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The Market as God

Harvey Cox

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Publication Date: 12/17/2019

320 pages

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Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University.

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Read Cox’s 1999 Atlantic essay on “the theology of The Market,” from which The Market as God grew
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