Introduction and selected review of the literature -- Money as a social institution -- The economy as labor exchange mediated by money -- Long term history of money and the market -- Money, models, and methodology -- Fetishism and financialization -- Money and abstraction -- Conclusion

Introduction: critical institutionalism, market model failure and the business control of society through cybernetic manipulation -- Veblen's dark places of business enterprise and the theory of social costs -- Karl William Kapp's critical theory of social costs : asset-specific cost-shifting,...

"The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a...