Description
Dr. Gay incisively discusses the huge impact of money on personal and social life. Considering the insights of a number of classical and contemporary social theorists, Gay shows the duplicity of a monetary ethos: capitalism is without question the most productive economic system ever devised, yet the market system also fosters a subtle nihilism that tends to empty the world of substance and meaning. Gay's analysis encourages readers to rediscover meanings and values that transcend "cash values" higher values that can free us from the market economy's grip on our culture.
Craig Gay is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Regent College. He is author of With Liberty and Justice for Whom? The Recent Evangelical Debate Over Capitalism and The Way of the (Modern) World Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist.
