A history of economic thought / Eric Roll.

Preface, 7 -- Introduction, 11 -- I. The Beginnings, 19 -- The Old Testament, 19 -- Greece: Plato and Aristotle, 25 -- The Roman Empire and Christianity, 35 -- The Middle Ages and the Canon Law, 40 -- II. Commercial Capitalism and its Theory, 54 -- The Decline of Scholasticism, 54 -- The Quality of Mercantilism, 61 -- Bullionism and Mercantilism, 68 -- Thomas Mun, 76 -- III. The Founders of Political Economy, 86 -- The Political Philosophers, 86 -- The Growth of Industrial Capitalism, 92 -- Petty, 98 -- Locke; North; Law; Hume, 112 -- Cantillon; Steuart, 121 -- The Physiocrats, 128 -- IV. The Classical System, 138 -- The Quality of Classicism, 138 -- Adam Smith, 142 -- Ricardo, 173 -- Malthus's Theory of Population, 195 -- V. Reaction and Revolution, 199 -- The Shortcomings of Classicism, 199 -- Malthus's Critique of Accumulation, 201 -- The German Romantics, 211 -- Socialist Criticism, 231 -- VI. Marx , 251 -- Life and Sources, 251 -- Method, 255 -- The Labour Theory of Value, 260 -- Surplus Value, 266 -- The Theory of Capitalist Competition, 273 -- The Theory of Economic Development, 281 -- An Appraisal, 287 -- VII. The Transition, 298 -- The Classical Heritage, 298 -- The Historical School, 303 -- Jones, 311 -- The Break Up of the Labour Theory of Value, 318 -- Senior, 342 -- Mill, 353 -- VIII. Modern Economics, 368 -- The Quality of Modern Economics, 368 -- Marginal Utility, 374 -- The Second Generation, 394 -- IX. The American Contribution, 415 -- The Background, 415 -- The Marginalist School, 424 -- Veblen, 439 -- X. The Inter-war Years, 455 -- Uncertainty, 455 -- The Theory of Equilibrium, 462 -- Keynes, 479 -- XI. Political Economy To-day, 498 -- The Economics of Underemployment, 498 -- The Statistical Contribution, 509 -- Towards a New Synthesis, 518 -- Bibliography, 528 -- Index, 533.