More Heat than Life: The Tangled Roots of Ecology, Energy, and Economics

1. Neoliberalism, environmentalism and the crisis of the 1970s -- 2. Oikonomia: on metaphor, science, and natural order -- 3. On photosynthesis and pyrotechnics: life between fire and law -- 4. Industrial machines and the discovery of the economy -- 5. The market as moral law: Providence, starvation and liberal Empire -- 6. The fire machine: economics as a social physics of natural law -- 7. Economics as agnotology: unlimited growth and the limits of knowledge -- 8. The Age of Ecology -- 9. Oeconomy of nature: the balance of nature and the struggle for existence -- 10. Super-organism: American ecology and national development -- 11. Energy, ecology and the Great World Engine -- 12. Ecologist as cyborg: the military origins of the subversive science -- 13. Power and entropy: the limits of ecological economics -- 14. Genealogies of resilience: from conservation to disaster adaptation.