Born in Montréal, Michel Verdon studied anthropology at the Université de Montréal and at Cambridge University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in1975. He taught at Cambridge from 1979 to 1984 and is now teaching in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. His research interest in the epistemological problems plaguing the study of society resulted in the publication in Paris of his own theoretical manifesto, Contre la culture (Edition des Archives Contemporaines).

• Introduction Chapter 1: A Background to the Neoclassical Cosmology Chapter 2: Probing the Neoclassical Cosmology Chapter 3: Strange Cosmological Bedfellows Chapter 4: From Cosmology to Language Chapter 5: Keynes's Economics: What Kind of Revolution? Chapter 6: Keynes and Speculation: Aristotle Revisited Chapter 7: More Substance and Transactions Chapter 8: From a Galilean Cosmology to a Galilean Economics Conclusion Appendix 1: Mirowski on Science and Economics Appendix 2: Marx's Economics: Successes and Failures Notes Bibliography Index