Includes index.

Contents: Anticipations: Introduction-plato -- Plato and aristotle -- Aquinas and the scholastics -- Pamphleteers-money (oresme, bodin, "w.s) -- Pamphleteers-mercantilism (malynes, misselden, mun) -- Sir william petty -- Child and locke (interest) -- Emergence of systems: Cantillon (cont.)-physiocracy -- Physiocrats-turgot -- Locke and hume on property-hume on money -- Hume on interest and trade-precursors of adam smith -- General survey of smith's intentions-the wealth of nations: Analytical (I) -- The wealth of nations: Analytical (II) -- The wealth of nations: Analytical (III)-policy (I) -- The wealth of nations: Policy (II) -- Nineteenth-century classicism: General review-malthus on population -- Value and distribution: Historical origin-analytical (I) -- Value and distribution: Analytical (II) -- Value and distribution: Analytical (III) -- Overall equilibrium -- International trade -- John Stuart Mill -- Other mid-nineteenth-century thought: Mill (cont.)-saint simon and marx -- Marx (cont.)-list and the historical school -- Beginnings of modern analysis: The historical school (cont.)-Precursors of change: Cournot, von thunen, and rae -- The marginal revolution (1): Jevons -- The marginal revolution (II): Jevons and Menger -- The marginal revolution (III): Costs (wieser)-the pricing of factor services -- Capital theory -- Walras-pareto -- Marshall -- Money -- The further evolution of the subject -- Appendices.