Handbook of the History of Economic Thought : Insights on the Founders of Modern Economics

Introduction -- The Tradition of Economic Thought in the Mediterranean World from the Ancient Classical Times Through the Hellenistic Times until the Byzantine Times and Arab-Islamic World -- Mercantilism -- The Cameralists: Fertile Sources for a New Science of Public Finance -- The Physiocrats, Lluis Argemí d'Abadal -- Adam Smith: Theory and Policy.-Life and work of David Ricardo (1772-1823) -- John Stuart Mill’s Road to Leviathan: Early Life and Influences -- John Stuart Mill’s Road to Leviathan: The Principles of Political Economy -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) -- Johann Heinrich von Thünen - a Founder of Modern Economy -- The legacy of Karl Marx -- Friedrich List striving for Economic Integration and Development -- The Entwicklung according to Gossen -- Gustav Schmoller as a Scientist of Political Economy -- The Empirical and Inductivist Economics of Professor Menger -- Antoine Augustin Cournot -- Léon Walras: What cutes know and what they should know -- Knut Wicksell and Contemporary Political Economy -- The Scientific Contributions of Heinrich von Stackelberg -- Joseph Alois Schumpeter: The Economist of Rhetoric -- Against rigid rules - Keynes’s Economic Theory -- Keynes’s “long struggle of escape,” -- John Maynard Keynes and the Theory of the Monetary Economy -- James Steuart and the Theory of the Monetary Economy -- Friedrich August Hayek (1899-1992)