"Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies. But markets are not abstract. Even as the idea of the...

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:...

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:...

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

Preface -- Economics, culture, and development -- Classical political economy and the rise of neoclassicism -- Neoclassical economics and culture -- Institutional economics : veblen's tradition -- The new institutional economics -- Marxian economics : from modern to postmodern -- Development...