Chapter 1. General Introduction: Why Should We Study the History of Economic Theory? -- Chapter 2. Introduction -- Chapter 3. Economics in Cambridge: Alfred Marshall, the Old Cambridge School, and Their Opponents in England -- Chapter 4. Economics in Lausanne: Vilfredo Pareto and the Lausanne...

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...