1. It all started with Adam -- 2. The French connection : Laissez Faire Avance! -- 3. The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- 4. Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- 5. Milling around : John Stuart Mill and the socialists search for utopia -- 6. Marx...

1. The measure of poverty -- 2. The effects of machinery on the condition of the working-classes -- 3. The influx of population into large towns -- 4. "The sweating system" -- 5. The causes of sweating -- 6. Remedies for sweating -- 7. Over-supply of low-skilled labour -- 8. The industrial...

ch. 1. The pioneers -- ch. 2. The goldsmith bankers and the evolution of English paper money -- ch. 3. The goldsmith bankers and their transactions with the Exchequer -- ch. 4. Tudor and Stuart banking schemes -- ch. 5. The foundation of the Bank of England -- ch. 6. The early transactions of...