From Adam Smith to Maynard Keynes : The Heritage of Political Economy.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- Book One: THE WEALTH OF NATIONS -- 1 The role of labour -- 2 Some problems of terminology -- Real price -- Value -- Labour command or purchasing power -- Labour command of particular goods -- 3 The Wealth of Nations: the theory of production -- Division of labour -- Money -- 4 Adam Smith on value -- Utility -- Real price -- Natural price -- 5 On distribution -- Wages -- Profits -- On wage differences -- 6 The neglected and exciting Chapter XI: on the rent of land -- Precious metals -- Changing real price of cattle -- The three orders of man -- 7 Money -- 8 Productive and unproductive labour -- 9 Savings and investment -- 10 Town and country -- 11 International trade -- The benefits -- Free trade -- Obiter dicta -- Colonial trade -- 12 Laissez faire -- 13 The education of Youth -- 14 The canons of taxation -- Digression 1: Consumer sovereignty -- Digression 2: The pursuit of wealth -- Gross National Product -- Real cost -- Net product -- Digression 3: On competition -- Book Two: THE CLASSICAL ERA: MALTHUS AND RICARDO TO MILL AND MARX -- Introductory statement -- 1 Malthus and population -- I: Facts and fears -- II: The Malthusian population thesis -- 2 Malthus: the economist -- I: The poor laws -- II: Effective demand: the Essay and the Investigation -- III: The over-saving thesis: the Essay and the Principles -- 3 The paper pound: Thornton, Ricardo, and Malthus -- I: The climate of opinion -- II: The historical context -- III: The Paper Credit of Great Britain -- IV: The High Price of Bullion -- V: Ricardo and the Ricardian theory of the mechanism of adjustment -- VI: Postscript, us, 1930 -- 4 The Ricardian theory of value and distribution -- I: The Corn Law controversy -- II: Malthus: Observations on the Corn Laws -- III: Ricardo: Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock, 1815.

IV: Ricardo's Principles (1817) -- Profit continued -- On value -- On rent -- On wages -- On profit -- On machinery -- On foreign trade -- Conclusion -- 5 John Stuart Mill, general characteristics -- I: The Autobiography -- II: Mill on method -- The antagonizing principles -- III: Means and ends -- IV: Mill and social change -- 6 Mill's Principles -- I: The degree of productiveness of productive agents -- II: Investment in human capital -- III: Capital and development -- IV: Population and production -- V: Distribution: institutions -- VI: Distribution: analysis -- VII: Value -- VIII -- The theory of money -- IX: International trade -- X: The dynamics of Book IV -- XI: Of the functions of government -- 7 Karl Marx -- I: The Communist Manifesto -- II: The prefaces to Capital -- III: The labour theory of value -- IV: Exchange -- V: The theory of exploitation -- VI: The working day -- VII: Absolute and relative surplus value -- VIII: 'Net revenue' and 'surplus value' -- IX: Accumulation -- The general law of capitalist accumulation -- Primitive accumulation -- The climax -- X: Two notes -- Value and price -- The business cycle -- Book Three: AFTER MILL -- Introductory statement -- 1 William Stanley Jevons -- I: Papers read at the British Association in 1862 -- II: The pamphlet on gold (1863) -- III: The Coal Question (1865) -- IV: The Theory of Political Economy (1871) -- V: Utility and exchange -- VI: Labour, land, and capital -- VII: Jevons and Cliffe Leslie -- VIII: Some other writings -- 2 Alfred Marshall -- I: Introduction -- Marshall and Jevons -- The role of mathematics -- Marshall and the Historical School -- II: The Principles, general characteristics -- Preface to the first edition -- Book I: preliminary survey -- Book II: some fundamental notions -- III: On wants and their satisfaction (Book III) -- IV: The agents of production (Book IV).

V: General relations of demand, supply and value (Book V) -- VI: Distribution of the national income (Book VI) -- VII: Marshall on money -- VIII: Marshall on the classics -- 3 John Maynard Keynes -- I: Introduction -- II: Indian currency -- III: The economic consequences of the Peace Treaty -- The Melchior story -- Economic Consequences of the Peace Treaty -- IV: Monetary policy, the Tract and The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill -- A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) -- The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill (1925) -- V: From monetary policy to investment policy: the way to the Treatise -- VI: The Treatise -- VII: Between the Treatise and the General Theory -- VIII: The General Theory -- IX: How to Pay for the War -- X: Epilogue -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- AUTHOR INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- W -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

In this survey of the great exponents of the classical tradition, Vincent Bladen examines the thought and works of Adam Smith, T.R. Malthus, Henry Thornton, David Ricardo, J.S. Mill, Karl Marx, W.S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and John Maynard Keynes, and relates their views to modern situations.

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