Table of Contents

Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Scope, Method, and Significance of Radical Institutionalism - PART 1: ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ECONOMICS - Phenomena and Epiphenomena in Economics - Toward an Ecological Economics - The Neoclassical Synthesis in Crisis - PART 2: ON CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS - Legitimacy and Value in Corporate Society - On the Crisis of Liberalism - Consumption in Contemporary Capitalism: The Backward Art of Living - Institutional Economics and the Crises of Capitalism - Social Reform and Economic Policy - The Institutional Crisis of the Corporate-Welfare State - PART 3: ON THE RELATION OF MARXISM AND INSTITUTIONALISM - Limited Capitalism, Institutionalism and Marxism - Radical Economics, Institutionalism, and Marxism - Toward a New Value Standard in Economics - Veblenian and Neo-Marxian Perspectives on the Cultural Crisis of Late Capitalism - References - Index