The recent financial crisis exposed both a naïve faith in mathematical models to manage risk and a crude culture of greed that embraces risk. This book explores cultures of finance in sites such as corporate governance, hedge funds, central banks, the City of London and Wall Street, and small...

Introduction: Economics and "the Economy" -- How Economics forgot Capitalism -- Economics Caught in a Physics Masquerade -- Rethinking Science and Social Science with Critical Realism -- Rethinking Marx and the Economic Science of Capital -- The Uno-Sekine Reconstruction of Capital:...

pt. 1. Methodology of the neoclassical macro model -- pt. 2. Paradigm lost : the basic neoclassical model -- pt. 3. A critique of self-adjusting full employment -- pt. 4. So-called open economy analysis -- pt. 5. Paradigm regained : reclaiming policy.

pt. 1. The long tradition of finance as a counter-productive activity in heterodox thinking : a Marxian appraisal -- pt. 2. Financial innovation, money, and capitalist exploitation : a short detour in the history of economic ideas -- pt. 3. Rethinking finance : a Marxian analytical framework --...