This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before Capitalism -- Chapter 3. The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of “Economic Man” -- Chapter 4. The Age of Enlightenment: 1585-1789 -- Chapter 5. Money as Wealth -- Chapter 6. Money as a Medium of Exchange -- Chapter 7. Credit and Banking --...

1. Kautilya’s Arthashashtra and a mixed economy within Monarchy -- 2. Socialism in the Soviet Union -- 3. Socialism within a Democracy, Fabian Socialism in Yugoslavia, Scandinavia, India -- 4. Socialist theory of Feldman and Mahalanobis -- 5. Socialist Calculation -- 6. Contemporary capitalism...

Vorwort – Von unerwarteten Begegnungen und ihren Folgen -- Einleitung -- Puzzlesteine einer Systemkrise -- Die systemische Perspektive -- Wir wagen einen Blick in die Zukunft -- Der Schritt in die Umsetzung -- Wohin geht die Reise?.

Chapter 1: Panonomics - ‘The What’ -- Chapter 2: Foundation in Place - ‘The Where’ -- Chapter 3: A Fourth Way - ‘The How’ -- Chapter 4: Mission: Time - ‘The Why’ -- Chapter 5: A People’s Panonomics - ‘The Who’ -- Chapter 6: Acting Now - ‘The When’ -- Chapter 7:...