This work argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture. "His reading of the scene in which Hamlet encounters the ghost is spectacular. Bringing together the language of mining with that of military conflict, coinage, and wealth-generation, this part of Harries' book shows him at his best. His linguistic assiduousness meets his awareness of the play's central themes and its cultural context in a manner that both illuminates the play and reinforces his claim that 'it is precisely Hamlet's figuring a modernity inextricably linked to ghostly injuctions that makes the play so telling an icon of modernity.'"