"The book studies the origins and evolution of economic textbooks in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up to the turning point represented by Paul Samuelson's Economics (1948), which became the template for all the textbooks of the postwar period. The case studies included in the book...

1. The making of an economic reader : the dissemination of economics through textbooks / Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi -- 2. Economic manuals and textbooks in Great Britain and the British Empire 1797-1938 / Keith Tribe -- 3. Cours, Lecon, Manuels, Precis and Traites : teaching...

Value -- The economics of the individual -- Fundamental theorem of the transformation of any given number of goods -- Final degree of utility of instrumental goods -- Cases where the final degree of utility of money is approximately constant -- Relationship between the final degree of utility of...