Lewis argued that his 1954 model of economic development in a dual economy was based on the classical framework originally advanced by Smith, Malthus, Ricardo and Marx. The present paper provides a detailed investigation of how Lewis adopted and adapted classical concepts such as...

The purpose of this paper is to present the views of various schools of economic thought on the sources of the institutional order of economies. The premises of the theories of constituted and spontaneous economic orders are taken as the criteria on the basis of which the sources of an...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On the early reception and dissemination of Adam Smith’s economic theory in Germany – literature, representatives and the case of Georg Sartorius -- Friedrich List on Adam Smith -- Johann Friedrich Pfeiffer on Adam Smith – An Early --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Methodology and its Use in Economics -- Chapter 3. The Origins of Economic Theory -- Chapter 4. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations -- Chapter 5. David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy -- Chapter 6. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital -- Chapter 7. The...