Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- BOOK I ECONOMIC THEORY AND THE SCHEME OF THINGS ENTIRE -- 1 Economic Theory and the Formal Imagination -- 2 Time, novelty, geometry -- 3 Self-subsistent and non-self-subsistent sciences -- 4 Valuation, variety and scalar quantity -- 5 Formal codes and their efficiency -- 6 Orientations -- 7 Reason versus knowledge -- BOOK II THE RISE OF THE RATIONAL IDEAL -- 8 The construct of reason -- 9 Subjective marginalism -- 10 The concept of value -- 11 Quantity versus form -- 12 The rational ideal as the core of economic theory -- 13 Cost and the meaning of choice -- 14 Perfect competition and conceptual illusionism -- 15 The value-construct in the round -- BOOK III THE DISSOLUTION OF THE RATIONAL IDEAL -- 16 Expectation: the dissolution of determinacy -- 17 Chapter 2 of the General Theory: two entrances for involuntary unemployment -- 18 Kaleidic investment-values -- 19 Lender's uncertainty and the nature of interest-rates -- 20 Liquidity: its nature -- 21 Prices as convention -- 22 The dissolution of rational determinacy -- BOOK IV STATICS: THE REJECTION OF TIME -- 23 The calculus and the subjective ideal -- 24 Simultaneous equations and the market ideal -- 25 Partial equilibrium -- 26 The rejection of time -- BOOK V DIACHRONISM: THE ARTEFACT OF TIME -- 27 Diachronism: the assimilation of time to space -- 28 Marshall's accommodation of time -- 29 Capital, or the time-net of production -- 30 Business cycle engines -- 31 History, theory and world-picture -- 32 The sovereignty of theory -- BOOK VI EPISTEMICS VERSUS AXIOMATICS -- 33 The science of imprecision -- 34 Languages for expectation -- 35 Profit