The Trend of Economic Thinking: Essays on Political Economists and Economic HistoryThis volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its important debates. It is published in corrected, revised and annotated form with a long introduction. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
PART I THE ECONOMIST AND HIS DISMAL TASK | 15 |
PART II THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN BRITAIN | 73 |
PART III ENGLISH MONETARY POLICY AND THE BULLION DEBATE | 125 |
PART IV CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN THE 19th CENTURY | 345 |
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