Filling in frameworks -- Machine as metaphor -- Instructions and incentives -- Choices and commands -- Specialization and sustainability -- Trade and trust -- Finance and fluctuations -- Policy in practice -- Macroeconomics and misgivings -- Concluding contemplation

1. What we know and what we don't know about the firm -- 2. The extent of the market process -- 3. The 'specialisation deadlock' -- 4. Entrepreneurship and integration -- 5. Authority and hierarchy -- 6. The volatile character of the firm -- 7. Financing, ownership, and boundaries of the firm --...