The Trend of Economic Thinking

Editorial Foreword
Introduction
Part I. The Economist and His Dismal Task
1. The Trend of Economic Thinking
2. On Being an Economist
3. Two Types of Mind
4. History and Politics
Part II. The Origins of Political Economy in Britain
5. Francis Bacon: Progenitor of Scientism (1561-1626)
6. Dr. Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)
7. The Legal and Political Philosophy of David Hume (1711-1776)
Addendum: A Discovery about Hume by Keynes and Sraffa
8. Adam Smith (1723-1790): His Message in Today's Language
Addendum: Review, Adam Smith as Student and Professor
Part III. English Monetary Policy and the Bullion Debate
9. Genesis of the Gold Standard in Response to English Coinage Policy in the 17th and 18th Centuries
10. First Paper Money in 18th-Century France
11. The Period of Restrictions, 1797-1821, and the Bullion Debate in England
12. The Dispute Between the Currency School and the Banking School, 1821-1848
13. Richard Cantillon (c.1680-1734)
Addenda: On Higgs
14. Henry Thornton (1760-1815)
Part IV. Currents of Thought in the 19th Century
15. Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), Jules Dupuit (1804-1866), and Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858)
Chronological Order of Contents
Bibliographic Note
Editor's Acknowledgements
Index