A history of economic thought :

Robbins, Lionel.

A history of economic thought : the LSE lectures / Lionel Robbins. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998. - xxviii, 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-354) and index.

Anticipations. Introduction - Plato. Plato and Aristotle. Aquinas and the Scholastics. Pamphleteers - Money (Oresme, Bodin, "W.S."). Pamphleteers - Mercantilism (Malynes, Misselden, Mun). Sir William Petty. Child and Locke (Interest) -- Emergence of Systems. Cantillon. Cantillon (cont.) - Physiocracy. Physiocrats - Turgot. Locke and Hume on Property - Hume on Money. Hume on Interest and Trade - Precursors of Adam Smith. General Survey of Smith's Intentions - The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (I). The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (II). The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (III) - Policy (I). The Wealth of Nations: Policy (II) -- Nineteenth-Century Classicism. General Review - Malthus on Population. A. Lecture 1. Lecture 2. Lecture 3. Lecture 4. Lecture 5. Lecture 6. Lecture 7. B. Lecture 8. Lecture 9. Lecture 10. Lecture 11. Lecture 12. Lecture 13. Lecture 14. Lecture 15. Lecture 16. C. Lecture 17. Value and Distribution: Historical Origin - Analytical (I). Value and Distribution: Analytical (II). Value and Distribution: Analytical (III). Overall Equilibrium. International Trade. John Stuart Mill -- Other Mid-Nineteenth-Century Thought. Mill (cont.) - Saint-Simon and Marx. Marx (cont.) - List and the Historical School -- Beginnings of Modern Analysis. The Historical School (cont.) - Precursors of Change: Cournot, von Thunen, and Rae. The Marginal Revolution (I): Jevons. The Marginal Revolution (II): Jevons and Menger. The Marginal Revolution (III): Costs (Wieser) - The Pricing of Factor Services (Wieser, Clark, Wicksteed). Capital Theory: Bohm-Bawerk and Fisher. Walras - Pareto. Marshall. Money: Fisher, Marshall, Wicksell. Robbins' Reading List -- Lecture 18. Lecture 19. Lecture 20. Lecture 21. Lecture 22. Lecture 23. D. Lecture 24. Lecture 25. E. Lecture 26. Lecture 27. Lecture 28. Lecture 29. Lecture 30. Lecture 31. Lecture 32. Lecture 33. App. A. Robbins' Writings in the History of Economic Thought. App. B.

Lionel Robbins' now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published.

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