Adam's fallacy: a guide to economic theology/ Duncan K. Foley

Preface --
1. Adam's vision --
The division of labor --
The theory of value --
Capital accumulation --
The invisible hand and the state --
Smith's theory of money --
Adam's fallacy revisited --
2. Gloomy science --
Second thoughts --
Malthus and population --
The context of Malthus's Essay --
Malthus's postulates --
Malthusian logic --
Population and food since Malthus's time --
Ricardo and the limits to growth --
Ricardo's labor theory of value --
Accumulation and the stationary state --
Ricardo's views on machinery --
The political economy of poverty --
3. The severest critic --
Historical materialism --
The commodity and the theory of value --
Capitalist exploitation --
Accumulation and the falling rate of profit --
Primitive accumulation --
The transition to socialism --
Marx and proletarian revolution --
Marxist theory and social change --
4. On the margins --
Adam's fallacy needs new shoes --
Marginalism --
Where do prices come from? --
Marginalism and social welfare --
Marginalism and time --
Veblen and conspicuous consumption. 5. Voices in the air --
John Maynard Keynes --
World capitalism in Keynes's time --
Say's law and laissez-faire --
Labor markets and unemployment --
Expectations and money --
The fate of capitalism --
Complexity vs. collectivism --
The prophet of technology --
6. Grand illusions --
Looking in the mirror --
Two-armed economists --
Escaping Adam's fallacy --
Face to face with Adam's curse --
Reading further --
Appendix --
Demographic equilibrium --
Theories of money and prices --
Ricardo's theory of rent and accumulation --
Decomposition of the value of commodities --
The working day --
Index.