The Science of Passionate Interests
An Introduction to Gabriel Tarde’s Economic Anthropology
Distributed for Prickly Paradigm Press
- Contents

PART I
It Is Because The Economy Is Subjective That It Is Quantifiable
A Return to Value(s)
Two Mistakes to Be Avoided
Ceasing to Confuse Recto with Verso
How to Specify Quantities
Quantifying, Yes, but Doing So Advisedly
A Mistake in Temperature
Getting Closer Instead of Moving Away
PART II
The Nature of Economics
Invention Before Accumulation
A Social Darwinism, But an Inverted One
Redistributing Production Factors
Capital Trends
An Economics of Compossibilities
There Has Never Been a “Capitalist Regime”
PART III
Economics Without Providence
The Return of Politics in Political Economy
The “Adam Smith Problem” and the Question of God
The Likely Mistake of the Coming Socialism
CONCLUSION
If You Chase the Big Beast Away, It Comes Galloping Back
Political Science: Classic Political Thought
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