History of Economic Thought

It is the aim of this book to present a critical account of the whole development of economic thought in the leading nations of the Occidental world ; and, while keeping the purely economic viewpoint, to indicate some of the most important relations of economic thought with philosophy and environmental conditions. As it is designed to serve as a text-book for the growing number of advanced students who study the history of Economics, every effort has been made to give a fair and well-rounded account of the thought of the leading writers, avoiding the emphasis of some newly discovered point or interesting but obscure writer which would characterize a monograph.

OUTLINE OF TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. GENERAL INTRODUCTION
I. Nature and Importance of the History of Economic Thought
II. Origin and Tardy Development of Economic Thought

B. ECONOMIC THOUGHT BEFORE THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS
I. Economic Thought of the Ancients
II. Mediaeval Economic Thought
III. The Dawn of Modern Economic Thought: Mercantilism and KAMERALISM

C. THE EVOLUTION OF ECONOMICS AS A SCIENCE
I. The Founders
II. The Earlier Followers
1. Pessimistic Tendencies
2. Optimistic Tendencies
3. Other Expositors
III. Opponents and Leading Critics
I. The Philosophical and Ethical System
IV. The Restatement: Mill
V. Opponents and Leading Critics
1. The Philosophical and Ethical System
2. The Method
3. The Logic
VI. Attempts at Reconstruction
1. Earlier Developments of the Marginal-utility Concept
2. The Austrian School

D. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF RECENT LEADING SCHOOLS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
I. Germany and Italy
II. England and France
III. The United States