The Development of Economic Doctrine: An Introductory Survey

AUTHOR’S NOTE TO SECOND IMPRESSION

I TAKE the opportunity of a reprint of this book to record three events relating to the literature of the subject. Firstly, Cantillon’s Essai sur la nature du commerce en general, referred to in the preface above, has now been published for the Royal Economic Society by Macmillan and Co. Secondly, the work of Suranyi-Unger, mentioned on page 374, is now available in an English translation; Economics in the Twentieth Century (Allen & Unwin). Thirdly, a large and detailed work on the history of economic doctrine, by H. W. C. Bordewijk, has appeared in Dutch under the title Theoretisch-historische Inleiding tot de Economie. It is largely devoted to the Mercantilists, the Physiocrats and the Classical School.

A.G.

April, 1933.