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

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 of undue faith in the three different kinds of social order they generate.

Citation

Johnson, G.L. (2005), " THE ECLIPSE OF MORALITY: SCIENCE, STATE AND MARKETBusch’s", Samuels, W.J., Biddle, J.E. and Emmett, R.B. (Ed.) A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 23 Part 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 209-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(05)23012-2