Preface -- Overview -- Introduction -- World-views, economic conduct, and social progress -- The authority of economic man -- The decline of economic man -- The moralization of economic affairs -- The dynamics of modern societies -- The virtues of market conduct -- Encircling the concept of the...

Changing economic circumstances ? namely, an end to the primacy of labour and property as determinants of prosperity ? have created a need for a new theoretical platform: one that transcends standard economic discourse.