The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic ThinkersIntroduction.--The economic revolution.--The wonderful world of Adam Smith.--The gloomy world of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo.--The beautiful world of the Utopian socialists.--The inexorable world of Karl Marx.--The Victorian world and the underworld of economics.--The savage world of Thorstein Veblen.--The sick world of John Maynard Keynes.--The modern world.--Beyond the economic revolution.--A guide to further reading (p. 320-326). |
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Introduction | 3 |
The Economic Revolution | 9 |
The Wonderful World of Adam Smith | 33 |
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