Development of Economic Analysis

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface to the Sixth Edition ix
• Part I - Preclassical Economics 2
• Chapter 1 - Early Masterworks as Sources of Economic Thought 8
• General References 21
• Chapter 2 - The Origins of Analytical Economics 23
• Chapter 3 - The Transition to Classical Economics 44
• Part II - Classical Economics 64
• Chapter 4 - Physiocracy: the Beginning of Analytical Economics 68
• Chapter 5 - Adam Smith: from Moral Philosophy to Political Economy 87
• Selected References and Suggestions for Further Reading 115
• Chapter 6 - Thomas Malthus and J.B. Say: the Political Economy of Population Behavior and Aggregate Demand 116
• Chapter 7 - David Ricardo and William Nassau Senior: Income Shares and Their Long-Term Tendencies 138
• Chapter 8 - Ricardo, Senior and John Stuart Mill: International Trade, Monetary Theory and Method in Economic Science 160
• Chapter 9 - Classical Theory in Review: from Quesnay to Mcculloch 181

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface to the Sixth Edition ix
• Part I - Preclassical Economics 2
• Chapter 1 - Early Masterworks as Sources of Economic Thought 8
• General References 21
• Chapter 2 - The Origins of Analytical Economics 23
• Chapter 3 - The Transition to Classical Economics 44
• Part II - Classical Economics 64
• Chapter 4 - Physiocracy: the Beginning of Analytical Economics 68
• Chapter 5 - Adam Smith: from Moral Philosophy to Political Economy 87
• Selected References and Suggestions for Further Reading 115
• Chapter 6 - Thomas Malthus and J.B. Say: the Political Economy of Population Behavior and Aggregate Demand 116
• Chapter 7 - David Ricardo and William Nassau Senior: Income Shares and Their Long-Term Tendencies 138
• Chapter 8 - Ricardo, Senior and John Stuart Mill: International Trade, Monetary Theory and Method in Economic Science 160
• Chapter 9 - Classical Theory in Review: from Quesnay to Mcculloch 181
• Part III - The Critics of Classicism 194
• Chapter 10 - Socialism, Induction, and the Forerunners of Marginalism 199
• Chapter 11 - Karl Marx: an Inquiry into the 'Law of Motion' of the Capitalist System 220
• Chapter 12 - 'First-Generation' Marginalists: Jevons, Walras, and Menger 244
• Chapter 13 - 'second-Generation' Marginalists and the Austrian School 273
• Part IV - The Neoclassical Tradition, 1890-1945 300
• Chapter 14 - Alfred Marshall and the Neoclassical Tradition 306
• Chapter 15 - Chamberlin, Robinson, and Other Price Theorists 337
• Chapter 16 - The 'New' Theory of Welfare and Consumer Behavior 360
• Chapter 17 - Neoclassical Monetary and Business-Cycle Theorists 383
• Partv - The Dissent from Neoclassicism, 1890-1945 404
• Chapter 18 - The Dissent of American Institutionalists 409
• Selected References and Suggestions for Further Reading 426
• Chapter 19 - The Economics of Planning; Socialism Without Marxism 427
• Selected References and Suggestions for Further Reading 440
• Chapter 20 - J.M. Keynes's Critique of the Mainstream Tradition 441
• Chapter 21 - Keynes's Theory of Employment, Output, and Income; Harrod's Dynamic Interpretation 458
• Part VI - Beyond High Theory 482
• Chapter 22 - The Emergence of Econometrics as the Sister Discipline of Economics 490
• Notes 500
• Selected References and Suggestions for Further Reading 502
• Chapter 23 - Keynesians, Neo-Walrasians, and Monetarists 503
• Chapter 24 - The Analytics of Economic Liberalism: the Chicago Tradition 526
• Chapter 25 - Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Economics 545
• Index of Names 571
• Index of Subjects 575