A History of Economic Thought 9780745303017, 0745303013, 9781783716340, 9781783716357

Table of contents :
Author’s Preface to the Second Edition
Part One
Mercantilism and its Decline

Chapter One: The Age of Merchant Capital
Chapter Two: Merchant Capital and Mercantilist Policy in England in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Chapter Three: The General Features of Mercantilist Literature
Chapter Four: The Early English Mercantilists
Chapter Five: Mercantilist Doctrine at its Height: Thomas Mun
Chapter Six: The Reaction against Mercantilism: Dudley North
Chapter Seven: The Evolution of the Theory of Value: William Petty
Chapter Eight: The Evolution of the Theory of Money: David Hume

Part Two
The Physiocrats


Chapter Nine: The Economic Situation in Mid-Eighteenth-Century France
Chapter Ten: The History of the Physiocratic School
Chapter Eleven: The Social Philosophy of the Physiocrats
Chapter Twelve: Large-scale and Small-scale Agriculture
Chapter Thirteen: Social Glasses
Chapter Fourteen: The Net Product
Chapter Fifteen: Quesnay’s Tableau Economique
Chapter Sixteen: Economic Policy
Chapter Seventeen:The Theoretical Legacy of the Physiocrats

Part Three
Adam Smith

Chapter Eighteen: Industrial Capitalism in England during the Mid-Eighteenth-Century
Chapter Nineteen: Adam Smith, the Man
Chapter Twenty: Smith’s Social Philosophy
Chapter Twenty-One: The Division of Labour
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Theory of Value
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Theory of Distribution
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Theory of Capital and Productive Labour

Part Four
David Ricardo

Chapter Twenty-Five: The Industrial Revolution in England
Chapter Twenty-Six: Ricardo’s Biography
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Philosophical and Methodological Bases of Ricardo’s Theory
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Theory of Value
1.   Labour Value
2.   Capital and Surplus Value
3.   Prices of Production
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Ground Rent
Chapter Thirty: Wages and Profit

Part Five
The Decline of the Classical School

Chapter Thirty-One: Malthus and the Law of Population
Chapter Thirty-Two: The Beginning of Vulgar Economy—Say
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Debates Surrounding the Ricardian Theory of Value
Chapter Thirty-Four: The Wages Fund
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Theory of Abstinence—Senior
Chapter Thirty-Six: Harmony of Interests—Cary and Bastiat
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Sismondi as a critic of Capitalism
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Utopian Socialists
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Twilight of the Classical School—John Stuart Mill

Part Six
Conclusion: A Brief Review of the Course

Chapter Forty: Brief Review of the Course
Afterword By Catherine Colliot-Thélène

Name Index
 
Subject Index
 
Diagrams
Quesnay’s Description of the circulation of commodities and of money

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