Preface 1 Introduction and Overview 1 The Personal Background 2 The Revolution Displayed 3 From Becker to Bourdieu via Kuhn and Coleman 4 The Revolution Betrayed by Way of Concluding Remarks 2 The Historical Approach to Rent and Price Theory Reconsidered Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Adam Smith's Theory of Rent 3 Marginalist Rent Theory 4 Compromise in Neoclassical Rent Theory 5 Concluding Remarks 3 Landed Property and the Distinction between Royalty and Rent Personal Pre-amble 1 Introduction 2 The Historical Background 3 The Theoretical Background 4 The Debate 5 Concluding Remarks 4 The New Revolution in Economics Personal Pre-amble 1 polemic 5 From Bourdieu to Becker: Economics Confronts the Social Sciences Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 The Enigma and Fluidity of Capital 3 Bourdieu's Distinction of Social Capital 4 From Bordieu to Coleman - With Intermediate Stops 5 The Revolution Portrayed 6 Concluding Remarks 6 Economics Imperialism as Kuhnian Revolution? Postscript as Personal Pre-amble 1 Introduction 2 Preliminaries 3 Paradigm Lost or (Re)Gained? 4 Paradigm Shift? 5 Paradigm Lost, Regained or Reconstructed? 6 Concluding Remarks 7 A Question of Economics: Is It Colonising the Social Sciences? Postscript as Personal Pre-amble 1 Introduction 2 Whither Economics? 3 Economics and Economies 4 Standard Theory 5 Determinism 6 Social Scientists: Beware Economists Bearing Gifts 7 From Potential to Practice 8 Concluding Remarks Appendix Index.