2 books in one volume

Includes bibliographical references (p. 497-519) and index

Book 1: shades of political economies: seeking clues for 2008 and its aftermath in the economists' theories -- 2. Condorcet's secret: on the significance of classical political economics today -- 3. The odd couple: the struggle to square theory of value with a theory of growth -- 4. The trouble with humans: the source of radical indeterminacy and the touchstone of value -- 5. Crises: the laboratory of the future -- 6. Empires of indifference: Leibniz's calculus and the ascent of Calvinist political Economics (with an addendum by George Krimpas entitled 'Leibniz and the "Invention" of general equilibrium -- 7. Convulsion: 1929 and its legacy -- 8. A fatal triumph: 2008's ancestry in the stirrings of the cold war -- 9. A most peculiar failure : the curious mechanism by which neoclassicism's theoretical failures have been reinforcing their dominance since 1950 -- 10. A manifesto for modern political economics: postscript to Book 1. Book 2: Modern political economics: theory in action -- 11. From the global plan to a global minotaur: the two distinct phases of post-war US hegemony -- 12. Crash: 2008 and its legacy (with an addendum by George Krimpas) entitled ' The recycling problem in a currency union') -- 13. a future for hope: postscript to Book 2