The Economy As a Polity

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Political Constitution of Contemporary Capitalism -- Part I: The Analysis of Capitalism: Work at Theoretical Retrieval -- Chapter 1: Towards a New Understanding of Economic Modernity -- Chapter 2: The Varieties of Accumulation: Civilisational Perspectives on Capitalism -- Chapter 3: The Problémafique of Economic Modernity: Critical Theory, Political Philosophy and the Analysis of Capitalism -- Part II: Money, Work, Public Policy and Administration: Contemporary Capitalism and Its Historical Transformations -- Chapter 4: The Monetary Issue and European Economic Policy in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 5: The Bretton Woods Agreement as an Invitation to Struggle -- Chapter 6: Work, Employment and Activity: Reflections on the History of a Fictitious Commodity -- Chapter 7: 'Always Embedded' Administration: The Historical Evolution of Administrative Justice as an Aspect of Modern Governance -- Chapter 8: Re-embedding Public Policy: Decentralised Collaborative Governance in France and Italy -- Chapter 9: The European Turn to Governance and Unanswered Questions of Legitimacy: Two Examples and Counter-intuitive Suggestions -- Part III: Re-Embedding Capitalism: Two Perspectives -- Chapter 10: The European Social Model and the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union -- Chapter 11: Economic Efficiency and Social Justice: A Prudential Approach for Public Actions -- Index.