Essays in the History of Mainstream Political Economy

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-11
The Physiocratic Theory of Property and State....Pages 12-27
The Physiocratic Theory of Economic Policy....Pages 28-46
Adam Smith and the Economy as a System of Power....Pages 47-64
The Political Economy of Adam Smith....Pages 65-85
The Classical Theory of Economic Policy: Non-Legal Social Control....Pages 86-139
Introduction to Thomas Robert Malthus, ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’, 1798....Pages 140-150
Introduction to Thomas Robert Malthus, Principles of Political Economy, 1820....Pages 151-166
Edgeworth’s Mathematical Psychics: A Centennial Notice....Pages 167-175
Ashley’s and Taussig’s Lectures on the History of Economic Thought at Harvard, 1896–7....Pages 176-202
The Teaching of Business Cycles in 1905–6: Insight into the Development of Macroeconomic Theory....Pages 203-222
The Teaching of Monetary Economics in the Early 1900s: Insight into the Development of Monetary Theory....Pages 223-238
Preface: Friedrich von Wieser in the History of Economic Thought....Pages 239-244
Taussig on the Psychology of Economic Policy....Pages 245-257
Introduction, Frank W. Taussig, Inventors and Money-Makers....Pages 258-266
The Influence of Friedrich von Wieser on Joseph A. Schumpeter....Pages 267-283
Introduction, William H. Hutt, Economists and the Public....Pages 284-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-293