Thesis abstract / Blurb -- Preface: economic thought and the intellectual legacy of colonialism -- Acknowledgments -- William Petty : biographical and historical background -- Petty and the colonialist roots of development economics -- Petty's economic thought and the fiscal-military state --...

Introduction -- Tooke's contributions -- Tooke's approach to value and distribution -- On Tooke's explanation of agricultural price movements -- An explanation of general price movements -- The monetary thought of the pre-banking school Tooke, 1819-1838 -- The monetary thought of the banking...

John Locke, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Lord Shaftesbury, utilitarian ethics and the moral sense -- Two Shaftesbury critics: Bernard Mandeville and John Brown -- Francis Hutcheson and the Hutcheson-Locke relation -- David Hume, utilitarian ethics, the moral sense and distributive...