The Worldly Philosophers

TOC

 
Preface to the Sixth Edition   
I Introduction   7
II The Economic Revolution  18
III The Wonderful World of Adam Smith 42
IV The Gloomy Presentiments of Parson Malthus and David Ricardo 75
V The Visions of the Utopian Socialists 105
VI The Inexorable System of Karl Marx 136
VII The Victorian World and the Underworld of Economics 171
VIII The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen 213
IX The Heresies of John Maynard Keynes 249
X The Contradictions of Joseph Schumpeter 288
XI Behind the Worldly Philosophy 311
A Guide to Further Reading 327
Notes 335
Index 349



The Worldly Philosophers