Preface I. Pre-classical thought -- Introduction -- Aristotle, politics and ethics (300s B.C.) -- St. Thomas Aquinas, summa theologica (1267-73) -- Thomas Mun, England's treasure by foreign trade -- Sir William Petty, a treatise of taxes and contributions -- John Locke, two treatises of government (1690) and some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money -- Richard Cantillon, essai sur la nature du commerce en generale -- Francois Quesnay, tableau economique -- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth -- Bernard Mandeville, Fable of the bees -- The classical school -- Introduction -- David Hume, political discourses (on money, interest, and the balance of trade) -- Adam Smith, wealth of nations -- Jeremy Bentham, an introduction to the principles of morals and legislation (1789), manual of political economy (1795), anarchical fallacies (1795), principles of the civil code -- Thomas Malthus, essay on population -- Henry Thornton, paper credit -- David Ricardo, the high price of bullion -- Jean Baptiste Say, a treatise on political economy -- David Ricardo, principles of political economy and taxation -- Thomas Malthus, principles of political economy -- James Mill, elements of political economy -- Nassau Senior, an outline of political economy -- J.S. Mill, principles of political economy -- The Marxian challenge -- Karl Marx, critique of political economy (1859), capital -- The marginal revolution -- William Stanley Jevons, theory of political economy -- Carl Menger, principles of economics -- Leon Walras, elements of pure economics -- F.Y. Edgeworth, mathematical psychics -- Alfred Marshall, principles of economics -- Eugen Bohm-bawerk, the positive theory of capital -- The development of macroeconomics -- Introduction -- Knut Wicksell, "the influence of the rate of interest on prices" -- Irving Fisher, the rate of interest (1907) and the purchasing power of money -- John Maynard Keynes, "the end of laissez-faire" (1926), "the general theory of employment" (1937), and the general theory of employment, interest and money (1936) vi. institutional economics -- Thorstein Veblen, the theory of the leisure class -- John R. Commons, "institutional economics" -- Post-world-war II economics -- Milton Friedman, "the methodology of positive economics" -- Paul A. Samuelson, "the pure theory of public expenditure" (1954) and "diagrammatic exposition of a pure theory of public expenditure" -- A.W.H. Phillips, "the relation between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in the united kingdom 1861-1957" -- Milton Friedman, "the role of monetary policy".