Tae-Hee Jo is Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York, Buffalo State, USA. Frederic S. Lee was Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, USA.

• Introduction Part I Radical ideas of Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen 1. The Marxian and Veblenesque elements in the way I do economics 2. Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and the global financial crisis 3. The contemporary relevance of Karl Marx’s heterodox political economy 4. Veblen, Instincts and Exchange 5. A further Veblenian articulation of a monetary theory of production 6. Is conspicuous consumption a weak concept? An historical perspective on the French Revolution and capitalism 7. Veblen on economic method: a critical note Part II Heterodox economics: alternative critical theory to the status quo 8. The "illusion" or "paradigm blindness" of economics: ethical challenges to economic thought from the financial crisis 9. Economics and history: why economists and policy makers need to understand the latter 10. Speculative financial capitalism wacking out over an "impossible" profit rate: the infeasibility of a "usual" real average profit rate, considering fictitious capital, and its implications 11. Shaping the social determinants of value through economic ghostmanagement: an institutionalist approach to capital accumulation 12. The rise of money and class society: the contributions of John F. Henry Part III The heterodox economics of John F. Henry 13. Property and the limits to democracy 14. A conversation with John F. Henry 15. The bibliography of John F. Henry’s writings

Tae-Hee Jo is Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York, Buffalo State, USA. Frederic S. Lee was Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, USA.

• Introduction Part I Radical ideas of Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen 1. The Marxian and Veblenesque elements in the way I do economics 2. Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and the global financial crisis 3. The contemporary relevance of Karl Marx’s heterodox political economy 4. Veblen, Instincts and Exchange 5. A further Veblenian articulation of a monetary theory of production 6. Is conspicuous consumption a weak concept? An historical perspective on the French Revolution and capitalism 7. Veblen on economic method: a critical note Part II Heterodox economics: alternative critical theory to the status quo 8. The "illusion" or "paradigm blindness" of economics: ethical challenges to economic thought from the financial crisis 9. Economics and history: why economists and policy makers need to understand the latter 10. Speculative financial capitalism wacking out over an "impossible" profit rate: the infeasibility of a "usual" real average profit rate, considering fictitious capital, and its implications 11. Shaping the social determinants of value through economic ghostmanagement: an institutionalist approach to capital accumulation 12. The rise of money and class society: the contributions of John F. Henry Part III The heterodox economics of John F. Henry 13. Property and the limits to democracy 14. A conversation with John F. Henry 15. The bibliography of John F. Henry’s writings