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...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On the early reception and dissemination of Adam Smith’s economic theory in Germany – literature, representatives and the case of Georg Sartorius -- Friedrich List on Adam Smith -- Johann Friedrich Pfeiffer on Adam Smith – An Early --...