David Gleicher, Ph.D. (1984), Columbia University, is Professor in Economics at Adelphi University. He has published 3 monographs, and many articles in history of economic thought, value theory, and social semiotics, as well as many reviews.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceThe Summer Before the War1 Industrializing Capital: Classic Works of the Twentieth CenturyHarry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly CapitalKarl Polanyi's The Great TransformationAdolph Berle's & Gardener Means' The Modern Corporation & Private PropertyThe Conclusion of Marcel Mauss's The GiftThe Great Failure of 20th Century Economists2 Corresponding Thoughts of Benjamin: Kafka, Bakhtin and the Prague SchoolThe Role of Language in Trauerspiel and TragedyShapes of TimeSemiotics of the Social: Karcevskij's Principle and the Imaginary CommunityKeys to Kafka's Castle, a Guideline for the Innocent Reader3 On the FringeLiberal Keynesianism and Modern Money Theory (MMT)The Pope and a Respected Orthodox EconomistKeynes and CH DouglasMight This be Done?4 Archaic MoneyBarter Exchange and Gift-givingCorrupt Gift-givingNexum and Mancipium5 Life-needs and Money Sequences, Outside or Inside a Sealed VesselValue ReductionContemporary Banking & FinanceCulture of LiquidationCosta Lapavitsas' Profiting Without ProductionAtavistic CritiqueMaurizio Lazzarato's Making of the Indebted Man6 Life as a Baby BoomerRed Diaper BabyHerman Hesse's Steppenwolf RevisitedCounterculture of Walter BenjaminGeorge Orwell's 1984Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionEvaporation of the Sixties7 Financialization of the UniversitiesNicholas Kristof on Knowledge and Deep LearningA Brief History of AdelphiThe Edifice Complex8 Identity PoliticsWorking Families Party: Is It the Moment? (May 2014)Resistance on All Sides (September 2014)Because I Am a NeurosurgeonThe Story of Rachel DolezalThou Shalt Not KillThe Clintons' Fusion of PartiesSelf-identification Against Democratic SocialismMLK and the ClintonsReferencesIndex