Great economic thinkers from the classicals to the moderns : translations from the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie / Bertram Schefold.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Classicals -- John Locke: a philosopher dedicated to economic thought -- The pamphlets from 1815 : a shining moment for economic theory -- Sismondi's Nouveaux principes d'economie politique : classical liberalism, philanthropy, and the experience of history -- Charles Babbage's on the economy of machinery and manufactures -- Karl Marx : the significance of the problem of the theory of the forms of value and the transformation of values into prices for capital -- Karl marx : circulation, productivity, and fixed capital -- Monetary theory -- Thomas Tooke's an inquiry into the currency principle and the theory of distribution -- Walter Bagehot : political economist and publicist in the Victorian era -- Rudolf Hilferding and the idea of an organised capitalism -- Neoclassicals -- William Stanley Jevons : the path to modern utilitarianism -- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth's mathematical psychics -- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk : discovery and error in the history of theories of interest -- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's positive theory of capital -- Irving Fisher's the nature of capital and income -- Irving Fisher's determination of interest and long term equilibrium -- Vilfredo Pareto's manual of political economy [Manuale di economia politica] -- Increasing returns, competition, and growth -- Antoine Augustin Cournot's an inquiry into the mathematical principles of the theory of wealth -- [Recherches sur les principes mathématiques de la théorie des richesses] -- Rudolf Auspitz and Richard Lieben : an inquiry into price theory -- [Untersuchungen über die theorie des preises] -- Institutionalism -- Gustav von Schmoller as theoretician -- In between historical school and modern institutionalism : J.R. Commons' institutionalism -- Johan Åkerman's the problem of a socio-economic synthesis -- [Das Problem der sozialökonomischen Synthese] -- Alexander W. Chayanov's the theory of peasant economy -- Moderns -- Knut Wicksell's interest and prices [Geldzins und Güterpreise] -- Heinrich von Stackelberg's concept of equilibrium : the search for evolutionarily stable market behaviour -- Paul a. samuelson's foundations of economic analysis -- John R. Hicks' value and capital -- Alfred Müller-Armack's path : from interventionary state to the social market economy -- Market, policy and society in Wilhelm Röpke -- Appendix: the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie -- References -- Index.