Ann E. Davis is an Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York (US). She was Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Meanings of Property in 2014. She is author of The Evolution of the Property Relation: Understanding Paradigms, Debates, and Prospects (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge, 2017). In 2020, she published The End of Individualism and the Economy: Emerging Paradigms of Connection and Community, published by Routledge. She has published articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Critical Historical Studies, and Science and Society, as well as book chapters.

• Part I: Basic Framework.- Chapter 1.: Beyond Reification: Envisioning the Earth.- Chapter 2: The Modern Institution of Science.- Chapter 3: The History of Political Economy.- Part II. Conceptual Development and Critique of Capitalism.- Chapter 4: Fictitious Capital: Money, the Symbol and the State.- Chapter 5: Public/Private Divide.- Chapter 6: Abstraction and Reification.- Part III: Alternatives.- Chapter 7: History of Commodification and Proletarianization in the US.- Chapter 8: Regional Ecological Communities.- Chapter 9: Conclusion and Further Reflections.

Ann E. Davis is an Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York (US). She was Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Meanings of Property in 2014. She is author of The Evolution of the Property Relation: Understanding Paradigms, Debates, and Prospects (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge, 2017). In 2020, she published The End of Individualism and the Economy: Emerging Paradigms of Connection and Community, published by Routledge. She has published articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Critical Historical Studies, and Science and Society, as well as book chapters.

• Part I: Basic Framework.- Chapter 1.: Beyond Reification: Envisioning the Earth.- Chapter 2: The Modern Institution of Science.- Chapter 3: The History of Political Economy.- Part II. Conceptual Development and Critique of Capitalism.- Chapter 4: Fictitious Capital: Money, the Symbol and the State.- Chapter 5: Public/Private Divide.- Chapter 6: Abstraction and Reification.- Part III: Alternatives.- Chapter 7: History of Commodification and Proletarianization in the US.- Chapter 8: Regional Ecological Communities.- Chapter 9: Conclusion and Further Reflections.

Ann E. Davis is an Associate Professor of Economics at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York (US). She was Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on the Meanings of Property in 2014. She is author of The Evolution of the Property Relation: Understanding Paradigms, Debates, and Prospects (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and Money as a Social Institution: The Institutional Development of Capitalism (Routledge, 2017). In 2020, she published The End of Individualism and the Economy: Emerging Paradigms of Connection and Community, published by Routledge. She has published articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Critical Historical Studies, and Science and Society, as well as book chapters.

• Part I: Basic Framework.- Chapter 1.: Beyond Reification: Envisioning the Earth.- Chapter 2: The Modern Institution of Science.- Chapter 3: The History of Political Economy.- Part II. Conceptual Development and Critique of Capitalism.- Chapter 4: Fictitious Capital: Money, the Symbol and the State.- Chapter 5: Public/Private Divide.- Chapter 6: Abstraction and Reification.- Part III: Alternatives.- Chapter 7: History of Commodification and Proletarianization in the US.- Chapter 8: Regional Ecological Communities.- Chapter 9: Conclusion and Further Reflections.