Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

by Heilbroner, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780393039191
• ISBN10: 0393039196
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Author of The Worldly Philosophers , a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy, and John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Acting as "a docent, not merely an editor," he takes the reader through the core arguments with "brilliantly clear commentary" ( New York Times Book Review ).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
I EARLIEST ECONOMIC THOUGHT	1	(14)
The Bible	3	(4)
Aristotle	7	(4)
St. Thomas Aquinas	11	(4)
II THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION	15	(38)
Introduction	17	(2)
Bernard Mandeville	19	(5)
Thomas Mun	24	(5)
Richard Cantillon	29	(6)
Francois Quesnay	35	(6)
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot	41	(12)
III THE CLASSICAL ECONOMISTS	53	(144)
Adam Smith	55	(51)
Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo	106	(21)
John Stuart Mill	127	(32)
IV
Karl Marx	159	(38)
V THE MARGINALISTS	197	(48)
Jeremy Bentham	199	(9)
William Stanley Jevons	208	(11)
Leon Walras	219	(9)
Alfred Marshall	228	(17)
VI TWENTIETH CENTURY ECONOMISTS	245	(92)
Thorstein Veblen	247	(17)
John Maynard Keynes	264	(33)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter	297	(34)
VII
Envoi	331	(6)
Index	337