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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Friedrich Engels at 200 Revisiting his maiden paper “Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy” (1844) -- Chapter 3: The Internal Contradiction of Land Rent and Young Engels’ Critical Theory of Private Ownership -- Chapter 4: Engels, Werner Sombart,...