Preface; Overview; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Moralization of Economic Affairs; Chapter 2 The Genealogy of Markets: Why Do Markets Exist?; Chapter 3 The Competition among Market Conceptions; Chapter 4 Markets as Sociocultural Practices; Chapter 5 The Foundations of the Moralization of the Markets; Chapter 6 The Dawn of Affluent Societies; Chapter 7 Knowledgeability and Economic Conduct; Chapter 8 Biotechnology, Environment, and the Market; Chapter 9 The Extension of the Moral Bases of Economic Conduct; Conclusions and Prospects;

“The most interesting book on the sociology of markets in recent times, one that deserves a wide audience across the humanities and social sciences. To those for whom society is a defunct idea, Stehr counters with an account of consumers in affluent societies as capable of bending the market to their collective will in ways that enable them to exercise the sort of power that in the past would have been treated as ‘political.’ The book provides us with everything we need to decide whether this is a good or bad development. Stehr has succeeded in restoring a sociologically robust conception of the market.” —Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick “Moral Markets constitutes a very innovative approach in the analysis of markets as sociocultural, strongly emphasizing the specific moral dimensions of markets in the contemporary scene, especially in relation to the expansion of knowledge, problems of biotechnologies, and the environment. A very challenging and important addition to the analysis of the contemporary scene that is highly recommended for sociologists, politicians, economists, and philosophers.” —S. N. Eisenstadt, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute "... a charmingly provocative analysis of the concept of the moralized market." —Frankfurter Rundschau