War, finance, and mercantilism -- Great divergence, fiscal-military state and economic policy -- From trading cities to territorial states -- The "military revolution" -- The rise of the fiscal state -- Different paths to public finance and fiscal systems -- European states and the crisis of the...

Foreword / Alain Badiou -- Preface -- The palace's night of red and gold: on the entry of France into the tertiary society -- Chaos as imposture, self-regulation as festive neoconservatism -- Hobbes's Robinson-particles: political arithmetic and mercantile empiricism -- The average man as...