1. Preface to The Romantic Economist
1. The Romantic and imaginative aspects of economics
2. Romantic Economist: neither revolutionary nor mainstream
3. Using the history of ideas
4. Wordsworth and Marshall
5. The structuring role of metaphor
6. Romantic economics prefigured
Part I. The Prelude: The Romantic Economist and the History of Ideas
1. Mill on Bentham and Coleridge
2. Nervous breakdown of an economist
3. The philosophy and history of two cultures
4. Mill and a bridge too short
3. Debates within political economy
1. Smith and the emergence of a discipline
2. Recurring disagreements
3. The triumph of social physics and Rational Choice
4. Lessons from Romanticism
1. Interdependent themes and lessons
Part II. Fragments of Unity: Romantic Economics in Practice
5. Using organic metaphors in economics
1. Economic models of interdependence and growth
2. Complexity Theory: moving towards a new template
3. The lessons of organicism
4. Some applications of the organic metaphor
6. Economics and the nation state
1. National versus universal solutions
2. Early advocates of national economics
3. Varieties of Capitalism and beyond
4. Globalisation and national economics
7. Incommensurable values
1. No single scale of value
2. The measurement and ethical definition of policy success
3. Consistency and indifference
8. Imagination and creativity in markets
1. The nature of imagination
2. The economy as creative process
3. Imagination and the microfoundations of economics
9. Homo romanticus and other homines
1. Homo economicus through thick and thin
2. Homo economicus in symbiosis with homo romanticus
3. Homo sociologicus: cohabiting with cousins
4. The role of sentiment and sympathy
5. 'Superman' and self-creation in economics
10. Imagination and perspective in economics
1. After Kant: a disconcerting or liberating philosophy?
2. Reading the interpretations that structure social reality
3. Kuhn, imagination and the nature of paradigms
4. The creative use of metaphor
5. Romantic pointers to best research practice
11. The Romantic Economist: conclusion
