Introduction: reading economics philosophically, or, the subject of economics -- Ricardo's architectonic : subjectivity and the hierarchy of knowledge -- Subjectivity through the wealth of nations : Adam Smith's tangential reasoning -- The static subjects of general equilibrium theory : Walras and the temporality of "pure economics" -- The continuity of uncertain time : Marshall and Keynes and rejoinder to general equilibrium theory -- The economist as subject : radical apriorism in the work of mises and Hayek conclusion: subjects beyond the architectonic.