Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Economies of sacrifice -- Circular economies, sacred economies: the sacrifice of labor in John Ruskin and nineteenth-century political economy -- Rational agents, ritual actions -- The visible hand : models of communality and economic information systems -- The...

This unique and original work contends that, despite the differences between Marshallian and Schumpeterian thinking, they both present formidable challenges to a broad type of social science beyond economics, particularly under the influence of the German historical school. In a departure from...