Part 1 Market and Work Places: Discovering what is real Chapter 1. Marketing postmodernity: 'Just like reality, only better' Chapter 2. Potmodernity and capital: A personal retrospective Chapter 3. Retroduction and realism: How to theorize Part 2 Conclusions in search of a premiss: Formulating modernity Chapter 4. Beyond good and evil: the modern manicheism Chapter 5. Everything pregnant with it is contrary: Nothing but constant change Part 3 The Unknown masterpiece: Marx's model of capital Chapter 6. The Inner Connection: Production, distribution and circulation Chapter 7. The nature of capital: Surface, structure, movement Part 4 Capital: Society's Law of Motion and Microphysics Chapter 8. How labour is organized into a productive force: Cost accounting, IR and HRM Chapter 9. The promised 'Connected Whole': Marx, Critical realism and Forcault Chapter 10. Working capital to the surface: Explaining the here and now

Original in conception and bold in its diagnosis, this work will be welcomed by students of, and researchers in, economics, social theory, Marx, Foucault and postmodernity.