Introduction -- Classicals -- John Locke: a philosopher dedicated to economic thought -- The pamphlets from 1815 : a shining moment for economic theory -- Sismondi's Nouveaux principes d'economie politique : classical liberalism, philanthropy, and the experience of history -- Charles Babbage's...

Milton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage is good policy. Decades later, Friedman's prediction has not come true. In Where Economics Went Wrong, David Colander and Craig Freedman argue that it never will....

Introductuion -- 1. Adam Smith on self-interest -- 2. Jeremy Bentham on self-interest -- 3. John Stuart Mill on self-interest and the assumption of economic theories -- 4. Leon Walras’ idea of human nature and theory of property: free exchange, communism, and association -- 5. Self-interest in...