This reader in the history of economic thought challenges the assumption that today's prevailing economic theories are always the most appropriate ones. As Leland Yeager has pointed out, unlike the scientists of the natural sciences, economists provide their ideas largely to politicians and...

In dem so geschichtsträchtigen Jahr 1848 erschienen John Stuart Mills "Principles of Political Economy - with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy". Die 150. Wiederkehr dieses Ereignisses von nachhaltigem Einfluß auf das ökonomische, ja auf das gesellschaftspolitische Denken in...