ABSTRACT
Peter Groenewegen's reputation as a chronicler of the history of economics is unparalleled. Building on his respected collection on eighteenth century economics, this new book focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reprinting essays on classical and modern economics. Several of the included essays have never been published before,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Classics
chapter 4|8 pages
From optimism in progress to pessimism
Some major implications of Malthus’ first Essay on population (1798) for attitudes to growth and welfare in the nineteenth century
part |2 pages
Part II Nineteenth-century moderns
chapter 10|33 pages
Neoclassical value and distribution theory: the English- speaking pioneers
The English-speaking pioneers
chapter 11|13 pages
Perfect competition, equilibrium and economic progress
That wretched division of labour and increasing returns
