Classics and Moderns in Economics: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Economic Thought - Vol. 1

Table of contents

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• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Tables ix
• Acknowledgements x
• Introduction 1
• References 13
• Part I - Classics 15
• 1 - History and Political Economy 17
• 2 - Reflections on Two Centenaries in Political Economy 36
• 3 - A Note on the Origin of the Phrase 'supply and Demand' 45
• 4 - From Optimism in Progress to Pessimism 50
• References 57
• 5 - Pickering's Collected Malthus 58
• 6 - Three Notes on Ricardo's Theory of Value and Distribution 75
• Notes 84
• 7 - Thomas De Quincey 89

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Tables ix
• Acknowledgements x
• Introduction 1
• References 13
• Part I - Classics 15
• 1 - History and Political Economy 17
• 2 - Reflections on Two Centenaries in Political Economy 36
• 3 - A Note on the Origin of the Phrase 'supply and Demand' 45
• 4 - From Optimism in Progress to Pessimism 50
• References 57
• 5 - Pickering's Collected Malthus 58
• 6 - Three Notes on Ricardo's Theory of Value and Distribution 75
• Notes 84
• 7 - Thomas De Quincey 89
• References 96
• 8 - Marx's Conception of Classical Political Economy 97
• 9 - German Political Economy, History and the Law of Value 113
• Notes 129
• Part II - Nineteenth-Century Moderns 133
• 10 - Neoclassical Value and Distribution Theory 135
• References 161
• 11 - Perfect Competition, Equilibrium and Economic Progess 168
• References 179
• 12 - Marshall and Hegel 181
• 13 - Alfred Marshall and Australian Economics 199
• 14 - Alfred Marshall - Women and Economic Development 210
• Notes 233
• 15 - The Evolutionary Economics of Alfred Marshall 238
• 16 - Marshall on Taxation 252
• Index 271