Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Ideas, Reality, and Saving Lies -- Things as They Are -- Articulated and Unarticulated Knowledge -- Expediency and Morality -- Part I: Expediency -- 1: A Very Beautiful Theory -- Organizations and Markets -- Unrealistic Assumptions and Positive Science -- 2: The Coase Recension and Its Lineage -- The New Economics of Organization -- Holes in the Fence: Contract -- Holes in the Fence: Principals -- How Holes Are Plugged -- Giving Ground -- 3: Gains from Trade -- The New Institutional Economics -- Gains from Trade -- Individual Choice and Imagined Entities -- At War 'Twixt Will and Will Not -- Part II: Morality -- 4: Natural Systems and Moral Systems -- General Equilibrium Theory -- Structural Functionalism -- African Political Systems and The Nuer -- A Pattern of Ideas -- The Road to Interpretivism -- 5: Imaginative Constructs and Social Reality -- Structure in The Nuer -- Essence and Wholes -- Structure and Environment -- A Plurality of Structures -- 6: A Piece of the Action -- The Unexamined Life -- Political Agendas: Neoclassical Economics -- Political Agendas: Structural Functionalism -- Change the Question -- Part III: Agency and Rhetoric -- 7: Affirming Structure: The Amen Category -- Somewhere to Stand -- Defining the Situation: Exchanges -- Morality as a Weapon -- Inclusion and Exclusion -- 8: Contested Structures -- The Lintel -- Motives and Tactics -- Unfolding and Compressing -- Combative Irony -- Humor -- Cross-talk -- Assertion and Suggestion -- Conceptualizing Structure -- Agency Models -- Conclusion: General Theses and Particular Cases -- The Itch for Totality -- General Theses and Particular Cases -- Knowledge and Know-How -- Knowledge and Power -- Global and Local Knowledge -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments.