Economist Ryan Murphy explains divergences between popular and informed opinion on the value of the institutions of the modern world, including globalized markets, science, and pluralism. The public expresses hostility for these institutions both in the voting booth and in their private lives, and even through the marketplace itself.

• Cover
• Markets against Modernity
• Series page
• Markets against Modernity: Ecological Irrationality, Public and Private
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures, Tables, and Text Boxes
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1
• Trade is Good
  • Notes
• Chapter 2
• “Extreme Voter Stupidity”
  • Notes
• Chapter 3
• The Obvious and Simple System of Unnatural Liberty
  • Notes
• Chapter 4
• Ecological Irrationality in the Wild
  • Notes
• Chapter 5
• Bohemian Status-archy
  • Notes
• Chapter 6
• Anarchy, State, and Dystopia
  • Epistocracy
  • Anarcho-Capitalism
  • New Autocracy
  • Futarchy
  • Assessment of Proposals
  • Notes
• Chapter 7
• Too Much Social Capital
  • Notes
• Chapter 8
• The Poverty of DIYism
  • Notes
• Chapter 9
• Social Luddism
  • Notes
• Chapter 10
• Whither Expertise?
  • Notes
  • Notes
• Appendix
  • Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author