PublishedPalgrave, March 2011 |
ISBN9780230113756 |
FormatSoftcover, 221 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 14cm |
This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.