The Making of Modern Economics : The Lives and Ideas of Great Thinkers (Hardcover, 2 ed)

List of Figures, Illustrations, Photographs, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Madness Plunges Economics into a New Dark Age; 7. Out of the Blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians Reverse the Tide; 8. Marshalling the Troops: Scientific Economics Comes of Age; 9. Go West, Young Man: Americans Solve the Distribution Problem in Economics; 10. The Conspicuous Veblen Versus the Protesting Weber: Two Critics Debate the Meaning of Capitalism; 11. The Fisher King Tries to Catch the Missing Link in Macroeconomics; 12. The Missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) Make a Major Breakthrough; 13. The Keynes Mutiny: Capitalism Faces Its Greatest Challenge; 14. Paul Raises the Keynesian Cross: Samuelson and Modern Economics; 15. Milton's Paradise: Friedman Leads a Monetary Counterrevolution; 16. The Creative Destruction of Socialism: The Dark Vision of Joseph Schumpeter; 17. Dr. Smith Goes to Washington: The Triumph of Market Economics; Index; About the Author.