ABSTRACT
Rooted in a critical tradition, the present treatise raises doubts about the assumption, now taken for granted so widely, that market forces should be allowed to determine social structures and relationships not only in the realm of commercial production and exchange, but in society generally. The book is thus concerned on the one hand with examining the social and discursive territory that has been taken over by market principles, and on the other with ways in which this territory may be reclaimed.
