The Origin of Economic Ideas

Part 1 Diagnosis: Simonde de Sismondi; William Thompson; Richard Jones; four critical Victorians; American critics; Britain between the wars; modern times; the adamant paradigm. Part 2 The preposterous origins: the just price; the mercantile revolution; Sir William Petty; John Locke and Dudley North; Vauban and Boisguillebert; Richard Cantillon; the Physiocrats; Adam Smith. Part 3 From propaganda to dogma: Malthus on population; Ricardo; Malthus on economics; Jean-Baptiste Say; Say's law; Nassau W.Senior; John Stuart Mill; the popularizers. Part 4 The Marxist transformation: new visions; manifesto of the Communist Party; the economic system; the Marxian revocation; Marxism assessed. Part 5 Tiny increments of economic change: constituents of the marginal doctrine; marginalism unveiled, developed and assessed. Part 6 The Keynesian restoration: the world of the thirties; the economists' answer; the General Theory. Part 7 The world of the textbooks: perfect competition; consumers; business behaviour; macroeconomics; the hard core; signs of hope; the role of the textbooks. Part 8: re-formation.