This exploration of the "economic underworld" and its treatment by orthodox economists has, at its core, a set of intellectual biographies of nine economic heretics ranging from Sir James Steuart in the 18th century to E.F.Schumacher in the 20th and covering a wide political spectrum.

Economic heresy as deviant science; Sir James Steuart; Edward Stillingfleet Cayley; John Francis Bray; Henry George; J.A.Hobson; Major C.H.Douglas; Paul A.Baran; P.W.S.Andrews; E.F.Schumacher.