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Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II by Murray N. Rothbard

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Chapters

  1. Copyright268 words
  2. Introduction3,343 words
  3. Acknowledgements492 words
  4. 1.1 The Smithian conquest of France746 words
  5. 1.2 Say, de Tracy and Jefferson1,928 words
  6. 1.3 The influence of Say's Traité1,843 words
  7. 1.4 The method of praxeology2,829 words
  8. 1.5 Utility, productivity and distribution3,417 words
  9. 1.6 The entrepreneur705 words
  10. 1.7 Say's law of markets2,917 words
  11. 1.8 Recession and the storm over Say's law2,115 words
  12. 1.9 The theory of money1,390 words
  13. 1.10 The state and taxation1,660 words
  14. 1.11 Notes1,164 words
  15. 2. Jeremy Bentham: the utilitarian as big brother9,499 words
  16. 3. James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian system14,323 words
  17. 4. The decline of the Ricardian system, 1820-4880 words
  18. 4.1 The conundrum of Ricardo's popularity1,114 words
  19. 4.2 The rapid decline of Ricardian economics1,747 words
  20. 4.3 The theory of rent1,130 words
  21. 4.4 Colonel Perronet Thompson: anti-Ricardian Benthamite780 words
  22. 4.5 Samuel Bailey and the subjective utility theory of value2,532 words
  23. 4.6 Nassau Senior, the Whately connection, and utility theory4,465 words
  24. 4.7 William Forster Lloyd and utility theory in England1,549 words
  25. 4.8 A utility theorist in Kentucky824 words
  26. 4.9 Wages and profits2,429 words
  27. 4.10 Abstinence and time in the theory of profits1,942 words
  28. 4.11 John Rae and the 'Austrian' theory of capital and interest3,335 words
  29. 4.12 Nassau Senior, praxeology, and John Stuart Mill2,210 words
  30. 4.13 Notes1,490 words
  31. 5. Monetary and banking thought, I: the early bullionist controversy15,483 words
  32. 6. Monetary and banking thought, II: the bullion Report and the return to gold15,445 words
  33. 7. Monetary and banking thought, III: the struggle over the currency school78 words
  34. 7.1 The trauma of 18251,616 words
  35. 7.2 The emergence of the currency principle3,277 words
  36. 7.3 Rechartering the Bank of England691 words
  37. 7.4 The crisis of 1837 and the currency school controversy1,713 words
  38. 7.5 The crisis of 1839 and the escalation of the currency school controversy2,356 words
  39. 7.6 The renewed threat to the gold standard621 words
  40. 7.7 Triumph of the currency school: Peel's Act of 18443,976 words
  41. 7.8 Tragedy in triumph for the currency school: the aftermath1,447 words
  42. 7.9 De facto victory for the banking school3,617 words
  43. 7.10 Currency and banking school thought on the Continent1,717 words
  44. 7.11 Notes3,152 words
  45. 8. John Stuart Mill and the reimposition of Ricardian economics8,981 words
  46. 9. Roots of Marxism: messianic communism6,902 words
  47. 10. Marx's vision of communism13,869 words
  48. 11. Alienation, unity, and the dialectic9,594 words
  49. 12.1 The Marxian strategy752 words
  50. 12.2 Historical materialism1,747 words
  51. 12.3 The class struggle859 words
  52. 12.4 The Marxian doctrine of ‘ideology’810 words
  53. 12.5 The inner contradiction in the concept of ‘class’2,727 words
  54. 12.6 The origin of the concept of class2,905 words
  55. 12.7 The legacy of Ricardo1,267 words
  56. 12.8 Ricardian socialism4,061 words
  57. 12.9 Notes1,224 words
  58. 13. The Marxian system, II: the economics of capitalism and its inevitable demise15,077 words
  59. 14. After Mill: Bastiat and the French laissez-faire tradition54 words
  60. 14.1 The French laissez-faire school1,651 words
  61. 14.2 Frédéric Bastiat: the central figure1,667 words
  62. 14.3 The influence of Bastiat in Europe2,197 words
  63. 14.4 Gustave de Molinari, first anarcho-capitalist1,281 words
  64. 14.5 Vilfredo Pareto, pessimistic follower of Molinari1,966 words
  65. 14.6 Academic convert in Germany: Karl Heinrich Rau585 words
  66. 14.7 The Scottish maverick; Henry Dunning Macleod794 words
  67. 14.8 Plutology: Hearn and Donisthorpe1,306 words
  68. 14.9 Bastiat and laissez-faire in America2,342 words
  69. 14.10 Decline of laissez-faire thought478 words
  70. 14.11 Notes2,175 words
  71. Bibliographical essay11,448 words
  72. A203 words
  73. B690 words
  74. C480 words
  75. D176 words
  76. E410 words
  77. G239 words
  78. H306 words
  79. I84 words
  80. J98 words
  81. K91 words
  82. L342 words
  83. M920 words
  84. N109 words
  85. P396 words
  86. R518 words
  87. S819 words
  88. T267 words
  89. U91 words
  90. V89 words
  91. W206 words

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