Economic science has extensively studied the creative power of individuals and social groups, but it has largely ignored the destructive power of economic agents. This highly original book redresses the balance and, for the first time, looks at how much an agent can destroy. Destructive power is...

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Problem Statement -- 1.2 Primacy of Institutions or Economy: Distribution or Production? -- 1.3 Bringing More Diversity to ‘Diversity of Capitalisms’ -- 1.4 Anfal and Economic Reductionism -- 1.5 Critical Order: Destructive Coordination -- 1.6 Research Method -- 1.7...