History of Economic Ideas in 20 Talks

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- To Readers -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Part I Fun and Useful -- 1 Welcome! -- 2 Dead Men's Wrong Ideas? -- Part II Pioneers and Contenders -- 3 Wealth and Power: Mercantilism -- 4 The Physiocrats and Law of Nature -- Part III Classical School -- 5 Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of the Market Mechanism -- 6 Thomas Malthus and Effectual Demand -- 7 David Ricardo and Differential Rent -- 8 John Stuart Mill and the Peak Time of the Classic School -- Part IV The Rise of Socialism -- 9 Antagonists to the Classic School -- 10 Karl Marx and the Collapse of Capitalism -- Part V Marginal Analysis -- 11 The Marginal School in France -- 12 The Marginal School in Germany, Austria, and the U.K. -- 13 Application and Extension of the Marginal School -- 14 Alfred Marshall and the Foundation of the Neoclassical School -- 15 Theories of Imperfect Competition -- Part VI Contemporary Trends -- 16 The Boom of Mathematical Economics -- 17 The Institutional School -- 18 Keynes and Keynesian Economics -- 19 Early Austrian School -- 20 The Rise of the Chicago School -- Epilogue -- Economic Ideas in Retrospect -- Further Readings -- Popular -- Textbooks -- Journals -- Websites.