The Trend of Economic Thinking
Subtitle: Essays on Political Economists and Economic History
By: [F.A. Hayek] ; edited by W.W. Bartley III and Stephen Kresge.
Contributors: Bartley, William Warren, 1934-; Kresge, Stephen.
Series: The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, vol 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780415035156
Subjects: Economics -- History; Economists -- History; Economic history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editorial Foreword; title: Introduction; title: PART I: THE ECONOMIST AND HIS DISMAL TASK; title: One: The Trend of Economic Thinking; title: Two: On Being an Economist; title: Three: Two Types of Mind; title: Four: History and Politics; title: PART II: THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN BRITAIN; title: Five: Francis Bacon: Progenitor of Scientism (1561-1626); title: Six: Dr. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733); title: Seven: The Legal and Political Philosophy of David Hume (1711-1776); title: Addendum: A Discovery about Hume by Keynes and Sraffa; title: Eight: Adam Smith (1723-1790): His Message in Today's Language; title: Addendum: Review, Adam Smith as Student and Professor; title: PART III: ENGLISH MONETARY POLICY AND THE BULLION DEBATE; title: Nine: Genesis of the Gold Standard in Response to English Coinage Policy in the 17th and 18th Centuries; title: Ten: First Paper Money in 18th-Century France; title: Eleven: The Period of Restrictions, 1797-1821, and the Bullion Debate in England; title: Twelve: The Dispute Between the Currency School and the Banking School, 1821-1848; title: Thirteen: Richard Cantillon (c. 1680-1734); title: Addenda: On Higgs; title: Fourteen: Henry Thornton (1760-1815); title: PART IV: CURRENTS OF THOUGHT IN THE 19TH CENTURY; title: Fifteen: Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850), Jules Dupuit (1804-1866), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858); title: Chronological Order of Contents; title: Bibliographical Note; title: Editor's Acknowledgements; title: Index