Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, and Gary Becker—argued for an unprecedented extension of the scope and magnitude of market relations, aiming to insulate the market from democracy and bring all of life into the volatile crucible of capital accumulation. The market, in their view, is the ontological architecture of the cosmos, an omniscient and inerrant being more righteous than mere quivering mortals. A way of being as well as a paradigm of what Sheldon Wolin has called “inverted totalitarianism”—the transformation of political democracy into a subsidiary of corporate
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