Economic Theory in Retrospect
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- xxv,725p.
Introduction: Has economic theory progressed? -- Pre-Adamite economics -- Adam Smith -- Population, diminishing returns and rent -- Ricardo's system -- Say's law and classical monetary theory -- John Stuart Mill -- Marxian economics -- The marginal revolution -- Marshallian economics: utility and demand -- Marshallian economics: cost and supply -- Marginal productivity and factor prices -- The Austrian theory of capital and interest -- General equilibrium and welfare economics -- Spatial economics and the classical theory of location -- The neo-classical theory of money, interest and prices -- Macroeconomics -- A methodological postscript.