Sources: Notable Selections in Economics

Part 1. The Mercantilist, Physiocratic, and Classical SchoolsCHAPTER 1. The Mercantilist School1.1. Thomas Mun, from England's Treasure by Forraign Trade1.2. William Petty, from A Treatise of Taxes and ContributionsCHAPTER 2. The Physiocratic School2.1. Francois Quesnay, from Quesnay's Tableau Economique, ed. and trans. Marguerite Kuczynski and Ronald L. Meek2.2. Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, from Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of WealthCHAPTER 3. The Classical School3.1. David Hume, from Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, rev. ed., ed. Eugene F. Miller3.2. Adam Smith, from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. Edwin Cannan3.3. Thomas Robert Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population, ed. Philip Appleman3.4. David Ricardo, from The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation3.5. Jean-Baptiste Say, from A Treatise on Political Economy, or the Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth3.6. John Stuart Mill, from Principles of Political Economy, ed. William AshleyPart 2. The Marxian, Neoclassical, Libertarian, and Chicago SchoolsCHAPTER 4. The Marxian School4.1. Karl Marx, from Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. 1, trans. Ben Fowkes4.2. Friedrich Engels, from The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateCHAPTER 5. The Neoclassical School5.1. Alfred Marshall, from Principles of Economics, 9th ed.5.2. Irving Fisher, from The Theory of Interest as Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It5.3. Joan Robinson, from The Rate of Interest and Other EssaysCHAPTER 6. The Libertarian School6.1. Carl Menger, from Principles of Economics, trans. and ed. James Dingwall and Bert F. Hoselitz6.2. William Stanley Jevons, from "Brief Account of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society6.3. Friedrich A. Hayek, from Prices and ProductionCHAPTER 7. The Chicago School7.1. Frank H. Knight, from Risk, Uncertainty and Profit7.2. Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, from A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-19607.3. Gary S. Becker, from Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, With Special Reference to Education, 2d ed.7.4. George J. Stigler, from The Citizen and the State: Essays on RegulationPart 3. The Keynesian and Institutionalist SchoolsCHAPTER 8. The Keynesian School8.1. John Maynard Keynes, from The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money8.2. Alvin H. Hansen, from A Guide to Keynes8.3. James Tobin, from Essays in Economics: National and InternationalCHAPTER 9. The Institutionalist School9.1. Thorstein Veblen, from The Theory of Business Enterprise9.2. John Kenneth Galbraith, from The Affluent SocietyPart 4. Welfare, Trade Economics, and Growth and DevelopmentCHAPTER 10. Welfare Economics and Economic Decision Making10.1. Vilfredo Pareto, from Vilfredo Pareto: Selections from His Treatise10.2. A. C. Pigou, from Socialism Versus Capitalism10.3. James M. Buchanan, from The Economics and the Ethics of Constitutional Order10.4. Thomas Sowell, from Knowledge and DecisionsCHAPTER 11. Trade Economics in the 1950s11.1. James E. Meade, from The Theory of Customs Unions11.2. Eli F. Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin, from Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory, trans. and ed. Harry Flam and M. June FlandersCHAPTER 12. Economics of Growth and Development12.1. Joseph A. Schumpeter, from Essays on Entrepreneurs, Innovations, Business Cycles, and the Evolution of Capitalism, ed. Richard V. Clemence12.2. Robert William Fogel, from Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery12.3. Douglass C. North, from Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance12.4. John R. Commons, from Legal Foundations of Capitalism12.5. Simon Kuznets, from Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution: Selected Essays12.6. Gunnar Myrdal, from Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations12.7. W. Arthur Lewis, from The Theory of Economic Growth12.8. Theodore W. Schultz, from Investment in Human Capital: The Role of Education and of Research