Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-368) and index.

Introduction: economics between science and 'non-science' in the current -- Crisis of the capitalist system -- A critique of basic economic categories -- Economic theory from utopian socialism to marx -- The production process -- Categories and dynamics of the capitalist system and its crises -- The basics of national accounting -- A critique of national accounting -- A critique of economics as applied to the structure of management : the enterprise system and the public administration system -- A critical theory of the enterprise -- The enterprise and the microeconomics of socialism -- Socialist public administration -- A critique of economics as applied to economic systems : regulation and planning -- A critique of the theory of hegemonic liberalism and the paradigms -- Of financialization -- The objectives of the socialist economic model -- A critique of economics as applied to the world-system : open economy and -- Imperialism -- International trade and imperialism.

Taking capitalism as a world system for his starting point, Vasapollo illustrates our economic system's contradictions and tendency toward crisis.