The Development of Economics

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I: Introduction

Part I: The Background of The Classical Political Economy

Chapter II: The Mercantile System

Chapter III: The Reaction Against Mercantilism In France

Chapter IV: The Physiocratic System

Part II: The Development of The Classical Political Economy

Chapter VI: Adam Smith And The Evolution of The Wealth of Nations

Chapter VII: Analysis of The Wealth of Nations

Chapter VIII: The Period From 1776 To 1815

Chapter IX: David Ricardo And His theory of Distribution

Chapter X: The Period Intervening Between 1815 And 1848

Chapter XI: John Stuart Mill

Part III: Early Critics of The Classical Economists

Chapter XII: The Nationalists

Chapter XIII: The Old Historical School

Chapter XIV: The Optimists

Chapter XV: The Socialists

Chapter XVI: Collectivism And Associationism

Chapter XVII: Scientific Socialism

Part IV: Attempts To Reconstruct The Science

Chapter XVIII: Condition of the Science In The Early Seventies

Chapter XIX: Some Characteristic Features of the Last Half-Century

Chapter XX: Carl Menger And The Beginnings of The Austrian School

Chapter XXI: Friedrich von Wieser

Chapter XXII: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

Chapter XXIII: Some Applications and Restatements of Austrian Doctrine

Chapter XXIV: Criticisms of the Austrian Doctrines

Chapter XXV: John Bates Clark

Chapter XXVI: Alfred Marshall

Chapter XXVII: Other Developments In Theory

Chapter XXVIII: Revolts Against ‘’Orthodox’’ Economics During The Last Half-Century

References

Index