Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors to the two volumes -- Preface -- 1 Prelude: from scholasticism to the Enlightenment -- 2 Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundations of laissez-faire -- 3 John Law and the Mississippi System -- 4 Science of...

"The complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of crises themselves. Are their causes chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality or a fall in the profit...

1. A retrospective view of Hicks's Capital and time : a neo-Austrian theory / Edwin Burmeister -- 2. Hicks's neo-Austrian theory and B�hm-Bawerk's Austrian theory of capital / Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz -- 3. Traverse analysis and methods of economic dynamics / Roberto Scazzieri -- 4....

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...

Introduction / Aldo Montesano and Luigino Bruni -- Pareto's methodological project / Luigino Bruni -- Pareto and contemporary economic theory / John S. Chipman -- Choice, preference and rationalizability in Pareto's theory of economic behaviour / Marco Dardi -- Walras and Pareto on the meaning...