Table of Contents:
  • 1. The context (I) : social and political Augustinianism
  • 2. The context (II) : on some problems in the governing of an ordered state
  • 3. Equilibrium (I) : the social classes approach : from the 'state of innocence' to the 'polished and magnificent state'
  • 4. Equilibrium (II) : the market approach : the foundations of equilibrium and of free trade
  • 5. Destabilising shocks (I) : court language and merchant truth
  • 6. Destabilising shocks (II) : market strategies : the propagation of disequilibrium.