Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book deals with the social costs of markets from a heterodoxperspective.  It deals with the degrading of work, decline ofcommunity, and rising income inequality in the United States asmarkets and especially financial markets come to dominatesociety.  Of course, if there is an attempt to point out thesocial costs of markets, the response of mainstream economists isto silence the critics or even in Orwellian fashion redefine theircritiques so as to eliminate any negative comments aboutmarkets.  While critique is necessary, there also needs to bea constructive agenda, that is, the developing of an alternative,heterodox economic theory.  So overall the book presents acritique of the social costs markets and the beginning of aheterodox economic theory of how the capitalist market systemactually works.