About the Author -- Introduction -- 1 Economics between History and Anthropology -- The trap of autonomous disciplines -- Changing the optic -- From reductionism to complexity -- 2 A Failed Scientific Ambition -- The triumph of mechanics -- Thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time -- The impotence of economic 'reason' -- 3 Homo Oeconomicus: A Dangerous Phantom -- The unlocatable individual -- How to construct society? -- The tautologies of methodological individualism -- 4 Exchange -- The right words for it -- Prescription or proscription -- Giving, receiving and giving back -- Market exchange or inverted logic -- Do the axioms of self-interest serve the interests of exchange partners? -- 5 The Fairy Tale of Scarcity -- The two faces of scarcity -- The means of abundance -- How to conquer violence in society? -- The dual paradox -- 6 Utility and Futility -- Questions for Jeremy Bentham -- How to define utility? -- Reductionist assumptions -- 7 Equilibrium -- The Walrasian model -- 8 The Growth Obsession -- What economic 'science' has chosen to exclude -- National accounting and the invention of GDP -- The growth obligation and its consequences -- 9 Growth Objection -- Actually occurring 'degrowth' -- Avoiding the economic trap -- 'Sustainable development' or another model? -- What about the well-being of the South? -- 10 Economic 'Science' as Religion -- From Émile Durkheim to Louis Dumont -- Naturalist dogmas -- The self-immunization of economic religion -- 11 Towards a New Paradigm? -- Heterodoxy as the solution? -- The diversity of economic forms -- The Newtonian impasse -- Conclusion -- A look back at the origins of the crisis -- Polanyi is back -- Changing everything so that it remains the same -- The blindness of ordinary economics -- Hopes of change? -- Critique as the precondition of a new paradigm -- Bibliography -- Index.

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