Economics in perspective : a critical history / John Kenneth Galbraith ; with a new foreword by Richard Parker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Look at the Landscape -- After Adam -- The Enduring Interim -- The Merchants and the State -- The French Design -- The New World of Adam Smith -- Refinement, Affirmation--and the Seeds of Revolt -- The Great Classical Tradition, 1: Around the Margins -- The Great Classical Tradition, 2: The Mainstream -- The Great Classical Tradition, 3: The Defense of the Faith -- The Grand Assault -- The Separate Personality of Money -- American Concerns: Trade and Trusts; Enriched and the Rich -- Completion and Criticism -- The Primal Force of the Great Depression -- The Birth of the Welfare State -- John Maynard Keynes -- Affirmation by Mars -- High Noon -- Twilight and Evening Bell -- The Present as the Future, 1 -- The Present as the Future, 2.