Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Environmentalism, and the Crisis of the 1970s -- The Laws of Nature and the Powers of the Machine -- Crisis and Contradiction: Life Beyond...
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Environmentalism, and the Crisis of the 1970s -- The Laws of Nature and the Powers of the Machine -- Crisis and Contradiction: Life Beyond the Limits of the Earth -- Neoliberalism as Anti-environmentalism: Corporations and the Counter-revolution -- Fuelling Freedom's Fires: Neoliberalism and the Organisation of Fossil Capital -- Chapter 2: Oikonomia: On Metaphor, Science, and Natural Order -- Ecology and Economics as Twin Sciences and Incommensurable Paradigms -- On the Anthropology of Classificatory Schemes -- The Metaphorical Machinery of Science and Culture -- Chapter 3: On Photosynthesis and Pyrotechnics: Life Between Fire and Law -- Life from Light, Fire from Life -- Aboriginal Oikonomia -- Towards a General Economy of Fire -- Part II: Economy's Nature -- Chapter 4: Machines, Mechanism and the Discovery of the Economy -- A Mechanical System of the World: The Newtonian Aspirations of Social Science -- Constituting the Machinery of Political Economy -- The Machinery of Freedom: The Steam-Governor and the System of Natural Liberty -- Chapter 5: The Market as Moral Law: Providence, Starvation, and Liberal Empire -- Natural Law Without Land: The World-Historic Nomos of British Liberalism -- A Laboratory of Natural Law: The Great Famine of Ireland -- The Late Victorian Holocaust of British India -- Chapter 6: The Fire Machine: Economics as a Social Physics of Natural Law -- The Thermoindustrial Revolution as the Context for the Marginalist Revolution -- The Carnotian Revolution: Labour Power, Arbeitskraft, and the Conservation of Energy -- Social Energetics and the Sciences of Work -- A Marginally Energetic Revolution -- Against Equilibrium: Entropy and the Legitimacy of Economics.