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...

Preface / Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger -- Aristotle on Economics and the Flourishing Life / Harvey C. Mansfield -- Hobbes, Locke, and the Problems of Political Economy / Peter B. Josephson -- Rousseau on Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing / John T. Scott -- Adam Smith and Human...

Corporation as common constitution -- The political economy of Sir Thomas Smith -- Richard Hooker's corporate Christians -- The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English corporation -- Dekker and Company -- Shakespeare's thing of nothing -- Francis Bacon's...

The problem with traditional economic models of choice -- How behavioral economics makes the same mistakes -- How behavioral economics met law and economics and begat nudge -- Why nudges can't do what they promise -- Why nudges are unethical -- All nudges are not created equal -- Why choice...