ABSTRACT

This new reader in the history of economic thought is edited by two of the most respected figures in the field. With clearly written summaries putting each selection into context, this book will be of great use to students and lecturers of the history of economic thought as it goes beyond the simple reprinting of articles.

Selections and discussions include such thinkers as Aristotle, John Locke, François Quesnay, David Hume, Jean-Baptiste Say, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher and Thorstein Veblen. The History of Economic Thought: A Reader can be used as a core textbook or as a supplementary text on courses in economic thought and philosophy, and will provide readers with a good foundation in the different schools of thought that run through economics.

part |2 pages

PART 1 Pre-Classical Thought

chapter |13 pages

Aristotle (384–322 BC)

chapter |14 pages

St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)

chapter |15 pages

Thomas Mun (1571–1641)

chapter |12 pages

William Petty (1623–1687)

chapter |21 pages

John Locke (1632–1704)

chapter |17 pages

Richard Cantillon (1680?–1734)

chapter |8 pages

François Quesnay (1694–1774)

chapter |16 pages

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)

chapter |11 pages

Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

part |2 pages

PART 2 The Classical School

chapter |20 pages

David Hume (1711–1776)

chapter |27 pages

Adam Smith (1723–1790)

chapter |13 pages

Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)

chapter |15 pages

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)

chapter |12 pages

William Godwin (1756–1836)

chapter |15 pages

Henry Thornton (1760–1815)

chapter |10 pages

David Ricardo (1772–1823)

chapter |11 pages

Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832)

chapter |35 pages

David Ricardo (1772–1823)

chapter |21 pages

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834)

chapter |5 pages

James Mill (1773–1836)

chapter |16 pages

Nassau W. Senior (1790–1864)

chapter |35 pages

John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)

part |6 pages

PART 3 The Marxian Challenge

chapter |33 pages

Karl Marx

part |3 pages

PART 4 The Marginal Revolution

chapter |30 pages

William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882)

chapter |19 pages

Carl Menger (1840–1921)

chapter |15 pages

Leon Walras (1834–1910)

chapter |24 pages

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926)

chapter |21 pages

Alfred Marshall (1842–1924)

chapter |30 pages

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914)

part |2 pages

PART 5 The Development of Macroeconomics

chapter |7 pages

Knut Wicksell (1851–1926)

chapter |26 pages

Irving Fisher (1867–1947)

chapter |21 pages

John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)

part |2 pages

PART 6 Institutional Economics

chapter |35 pages

Thorstein B. Veblen (1857–1929)

chapter |9 pages

John R. Commons (1862–1945)