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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The historic advance, ca. 1870–1970 -- One. The Historic Advance -- Two. Interpreting the ''Sixties'' -- Three. The Modern Reaction -- Part 2. Recapping and beyond -- Introduction -- Four. Social Stratification and Social Dynamics -- Five. Institutional Elites and Social Action -- Six. The Inner Government Within Liberal Democracy -- Part 3. Proposals for a renewed historic advance -- Seven. On Strategy and Organization -- Eight. The Reform of the Police Power -- Nine. Civilizing the Corporation -- Ten. A ''Civilized'' Employment System -- Eleven. International Government and International Chaos -- Twelve. Political Reform -- Notes -- References -- Index

Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: The Argument -- Chapter 1: We Invest More than They -- Some Background -- Public Investment -- Producing a Labor Force -- "To Create a Modern Labor Force!" -- Analyzing the Investment Numbers -- Ideology Trumps Facts: An Informative Detour -- Creating Infrastructure -- Public Co-investment -- Agriculture -- There Is More Besides -- "The Money Pasture" -- Taxes: Who Pays? -- Pipers and Tunes -- Looking Ahead and Finishing the Job -- References -- Chapter 2: The Paradoxes of Market Economics -- That Inner Logic -- Three Degrees of Competition -- Firm-to-Firm Transactions -- Consensual, Not Competitive -- That Consensual Economy -- Firm-to-Consumer: Competition? -- The "Competitive" Fiction -- The Atomic Transaction -- Time Out -- Futures Market -- Ceteris Paribus -- Time Out and Time In: An Exercise in Theory -- Reconstructing -- References -- Chapter 3: Economics and Mis-Mathematics -- Introduction -- The Mis-Mathematics of Economics: First Approach -- Two Infinites -- A Helpful Detour -- The Decisive Turn -- Two Kinds of "Individualism" -- The Argument -- Adam Smith Revisited and Extended -- A Mathematical Pause: The Power Set -- Introducing Mis-Mathematics -- Methodological Irony -- Transparency -- Countable and Real Number "Lines" -- Economic Laws -- Abstractions and Ideotypes -- Rounding Off the Discussion -- References -- Chapter 4: Cornucopia, Inc. -- The Process of Capitalist Production -- Managing Managers Capitalistically -- Managing Workers: Taylor, Taylorism, and Schmidt -- Assembling the Model -- Capping Some Social History -- The Merchant's Model Revisited -- Nothing Stands Still -- References -- Chapter 5: From "Employees" to "Servants" -- History as Opportunity and Burden -- The Great Evasion -- Private Property and the Workplace -- Can We Afford the Private Property Workplace

The modern or cadre middle class of managers, technologists, professionals, and kindred, typically university-degreed pursuits, is an important commodity-producing class in its own right, a mass, or populous social formation, and a true international class. It is also the social material bearer of globalization, its indispensable political constituency, and, ultimately, a contributor to the international impoverishment between countries and classes that is a hallmark of present-day international economic development. Adapted from the source document.

The article is an immanent critique of mainstream microeconomics, particularly of its treatment of time. In support of that, a behavioral microeconomic paradigm is formulated. The article includes an analysis of sets of transactions that require positive time intervals for their completion such that they are not comprehended within Arrow-Hahn general equilibria criteria. JEL classification: B21, B41, D50