Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market: Beyond Commercial Modelling By Russell Keat. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 224p. $69.95.

Extract

With respect to markets, the twentieth century closed with a great deal more ebullience than it opened. Not that 1900 was a watershed in antimarket thinking—that was still to come. No, the contrast between fins de siecle is striking because whatever criticisms markets had to endure during the final century of the millennium seemed to have all but vanished by its close.