On Economic Knowledge

Preface to First Edition; Preface to Enlarged Edition; Part One: Can Economics Be a Science? ; 1. Man-Matter-Society 2. The Economics of a Market Society 3. Economic Behaviour and the Evolution of Capitalism; Part Two: The Logic of Economic Science ; 4. A Model for the Traditional Theory of the Market 5. Toward a Science of Political Economics; Part Three: The Historical Trend of Economic Science ; 6. The Origin of Traditional Theory: Adam Smith’s System of Equilibrium Growth 7. An Alternative to the Original System: Karl Marx’s Theory of Cyclical Transformation 8. The Erosion of the Original System: The Post-Classical Pure Economics 9. Emergence of a New System: J. M. Keynes’s Rudiments of Political Economics; Part Four: Aspects of a Science of Political Economics ; 10. Instrumental Inference 11. Instrumental Inference in Operation 12. The Vindication of Goals; Part Five: A Postscript ; Political Economics in the Late Twentieth Century; Index of Names; Index of Subjects