The individual as a key term -- Property and reification -- The public/private divide -- The shaping of the modern liberal state -- The economics of "autophagy": implications of the economy as "machine" -- Methods of social science -- "Unique individuals" -- The property paradigm --...

Introduction and selected review of the literature -- Money as a social institution -- The economy as labor exchange mediated by money -- Long term history of money and the market -- Money, models, and methodology -- Fetishism and financialization -- Money and abstraction -- Conclusion