Essays on the Intellectual History of Economics / / Jacob Viner; ed. by Douglas A. Irwin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Viner, Jacob,
• HerausgeberIn: Irwin, Douglas A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1191
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

Ranking among the most distinguished economists and scholars of his generation, Jacob Viner is best remembered for his work in international economics and in the history of economic thought. Mark Blaug, in his Great Economists Since Keynes (Cambridge, 1985) remarked that Viner was "quite simply...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I. The Wabash Lectures
• 1. Five Lectures on Economics and Freedom
• PART II. Major Essays
• 2. Adam Smith and Laissez Faire
• 3. MARSHALL'S ECONOMICS, IN RELATION TO THE MAN AND TO HIS TIMES
• 4. POWER VERSUS PLENTY AS O B J E C T I V E S OF FOREIGN POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
• 5. BENTHAM AND J. s. MILL: THE UTILITARIAN BACKGROUND
• 6. Introduction to Bernard Mandeville, A Letter to Dion (1732)
• 7. "Fashion" in Economic Thought
• 8. The Intellectual History of Laissez Faire
• 9. The Economist in History 226
• 10. Adam Smith
• 11. Mercantilist Thought
• 12. Man's Economic Status
• 13. Satire and Economics in the August an Age of Satire
• PART III. Review Articles
• 14. Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis
• 15. Hayek on Freedom and Coercion
• 16. "Possessive Individualism" as Original Sin
• 17. The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill
• PART IV. Commencement Addresses
• 18. A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training
• 19. Address at the University of Toronto Convocation
• Index