Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy,9780393039191

Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

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ISBN13: 9780393039191
ISBN10: 0393039196
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1996-04-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Author of The Worldly Philosophers , a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy, and John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Acting as "a docent, not merely an editor," he takes the reader through the core arguments with "brilliantly clear commentary" ( New York Times Book Review ).

Table of Contents

Preface xi
I EARLIEST ECONOMIC THOUGHT 1(14)
The Bible
3(4)
Aristotle
7(4)
St. Thomas Aquinas
11(4)
II THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION 15(38)
Introduction
17(2)
Bernard Mandeville
19(5)
Thomas Mun
24(5)
Richard Cantillon
29(6)
Francois Quesnay
35(6)
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
41(12)
III THE CLASSICAL ECONOMISTS 53(144)
Adam Smith
55(51)
Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo
106(21)
John Stuart Mill
127(32)
IV
Karl Marx
159(38)
V THE MARGINALISTS 197(48)
Jeremy Bentham
199(9)
William Stanley Jevons
208(11)
Leon Walras
219(9)
Alfred Marshall
228(17)
VI TWENTIETH CENTURY ECONOMISTS 245(92)
Thorstein Veblen
247(17)
John Maynard Keynes
264(33)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
297(34)
VII
Envoi
331(6)
Index 337

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