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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