This book depicts the need for an economics that addresses social provisioning in the context of power and culture. Such an approach is necessary to the development of an analysis that treats human wants and technology as endogenous variables, thereby avoiding the atavism inherent in conventional economics epistemology. Only in this way can the requisite re-viewing of the place of economy in society be brought to bear in an economic analysis capable of addressing the seemingly intractable problems of the democratic capitalist societies.

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