Great economic thinkers from the classicals to the moderns : translations from the series Klassiker der Nationalok̈onomie

ContentsList of tables Preface and acknowledgments Detailed Contents for Great Economic Thinkers from Antiquity to the Historical SchoolIntroduction Two schemes for ordering approaches to the history of economic thought Institutionalism and ordoliberalism The development of economic theory since Adam Smith: an ordering according to the theories of value and distribution 1 Classicals John Locke: a philosopher dedicated to economic thought The Pamphlets from 1815: a shining moment for economic theory Sismondi's Nouveaux Principes d'Economie Politique: classical liberalism, philanthropy, and the experience of history Charles Babbage's On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Karl Marx: the significance of the problem of the theory of the forms of value and the transformation of values into prices for capital Karl Marx: circulation, productivity, and fixed capital2 Monetary Theory Thomas Tooke's An Inquiry into the Currency Principle and the theory of distribution Walter Bagehot: political economist and publicist in the Victorian era Rudolf Hilferding and the idea of an organised capitalism 3 Neoclassicals William Stanley Jevons: the path to modern Utilitarianism Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's Mathematical Psychics Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk: discovery and error in the history of theories of interest Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk's Positive Theory of Capital Irving Fisher's The Nature of Capital and Income Irving Fisher's determination of interest and long-term equilibrium Vilfredo Pareto's Manual of Political Economy [Manuale di economia politica] Increasing returns, competition, and growth Antoine Augustin Cournot's An Inquiry into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth [Recherches sur les principes mathematiques de la theorie des richesses] Rudolf Auspitz and Richard Lieben: An Inquiry into Price Theory [Untersuchungen uber die Theorie des Preises] 4 Institutionalism Gustav von Schmoller as theoretician In between Historical School and modern Institutionalism: J. R. Commons`s Institutionalism Johan Akerman's The Problem of a Socio-Economic Synthesis [Das Problem der sozialoekonomischen Synthese] Alexander W. Chayanov's The Theory of Peasant Economy 5 Moderns Knut Wicksell's Interest and Prices [Geldzins und Guterpreise] Heinrich von Stackelberg's concept of equilibrium: the search for evolutionarily stable market behaviour Paul A. Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis John R. Hicks's Value and Capital Alfred Muller-Armack's path: from interventionary state to the social market economy Market, policy, and society in Wilhelm Roepke Appendix: The Series Klassiker der Nationaloekonomie References Index