Nature of Capital

• Part 1 Market and Work Places: Discovering what is real Chapter 1. Marketing postmodernity: 'Just like reality, only better' Chapter 2. Potmodernity and capital: A personal retrospective Chapter 3. Retroduction and realism: How to theorize Part 2 Conclusions in search of a premiss: Formulating modernity Chapter 4. Beyond good and evil: the modern manicheism Chapter 5. Everything pregnant with it is contrary: Nothing but constant change Part 3 The Unknown masterpiece: Marx's model of capital Chapter 6. The Inner Connection: Production, distribution and circulation Chapter 7. The nature of capital: Surface, structure, movement Part 4 Capital: Society's Law of Motion and Microphysics Chapter 8. How labour is organized into a productive force: Cost accounting, IR and HRM Chapter 9. The promised 'Connected Whole': Marx, Critical realism and Forcault Chapter 10. Working capital to the surface: Explaining the here and now

'This is an exciting heuristic adventure, which would appeal to students of Marx and Foucault, and indeed anyone concerned about the hypereal 'shopping mall' logic of the postmodern capitalist world we live in at the moment' - Saul Newman, Macquarie University, Australia'