Description: 1 Introduction.- 2 Classical Doctrine On Services.- 1. From Productiveness in Fiscal Terms to Productiveness in Terms of Wealth.- 2. Services in Economic Theory During the First Half of the 19th Century.- 3. Summary of the Classical Theory on Services.- 3 Marx: Standard Theory and Potential Directions.- 1. The Approach Formulated by Marx.- 2. Services and Material Production with Marx.- 3. The Prerequisites of the Economic Structure in Marx's Theory of Productive Labour.- 4 All is Productive, All is Service.- 1. Economic Relations as Exchanges of Services.- 2. The Services in France around 1900 and the Treatment of Specific Service Activities: War and State.- 5 The Tertiary Sector and Post-Industrial Society.- 1. Youth and Maturity of the Idea of the Tertiary Sector.- 2. From Tertiary Sector to Services: Dominance and Diversity of Post-Industrial Concepts.- 6 Service Society Versus Neo-Industrialism.- 1. Anti-Bell: Jonathan Gershuny or the Dominance of Goods Over Services.- 2. Neo-Industrial Service Production.- 3. Conclusion: The Theory of Services, a Major Part of Our Understanding of Contemporary Society.- Author Index.

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