Chapter One: Usury, Sodomy, and Idolatry -- Chapter Two: Performativity in Postmodernity -- Chapter Three: The Commodification of Rhetoric in Classical Athens -- Chapter Four: Witchcraft and Representation in Early Modern England -- Chapter Five: Commodification and Performativity in Eucharistic...

The concept of "performativity" has risen to prominence throughout the humanities. The rise of financial derivatives reflects the power of the performative sign in the economic sphere. As recent debates about gender identity show, the concept of performativity is also profoundly influential on...

1. It all started with Adam -- 2. The French connection : Laissez Faire Avance! -- 3. The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- 4. Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- 5. Milling around : John Stuart Mill and the socialists search for utopia -- 6. Marx...

Introduction : systems of life, or bioeconomic politics / Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag -- Looking for (economic) growth in the eighteenth century / Christian Marouby -- An African diasporic critique of violence / James Edward Ford III -- Rousseau : vital instinct and pity / Pierre...