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Classical Economics. An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

1995

[Front Matter and Table of Contents]: Title pages, dedication to Ludwig von Mises and Joseph Dorfman, list of patrons, and the table of contents for Volume II of Rothbard's history of economic thought...

Austrian School Classical Economics Economic History Mises Institute Murray Rothbard Adam Smith Praxeology Subjective Value Ludwig von Mises Jean-Baptiste Say Laissez-faire Physiocracy Property Rights Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot Mathematical Economics Methodology Entrepreneurship Factors of Production Interest Rates Utility Wages Boom and Bust Deficit Spending John Maynard Keynes Overproduction Say's Law Taxation Thomas Malthus Underconsumption banking Bimetallism David Ricardo Inflation Napoleon Bonaparte John Stuart Mill Joseph Schumpeter Supply and Demand James Mill Jeremy Bentham Mercantilism Price Controls Statism utilitarianism Marginalism David Hume natural law Positivism egalitarianism Interventionism Welfare State slavery Totalitarianism Herbert Spencer Labor Theory of Value class struggle Liberalism macroeconomics Ground Rent stationary economy Comparative Advantage International Trade John Bates Clark Productivity Nassau Senior Iron Law of Wages Marginal Utility Catallactics Abstinence Theory Capital Theory Time Preference Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk Protectionism Thorstein Veblen Bank of England Fiat Money Monetary Theory political economy Banknotes Currency School Purchasing Power Deflation Forced Saving Velocity of Circulation Gresham's Law John Locke Monetary Equilibrium Exchange Rates Monetary Policy Monetarism Quantity Theory of Money Gold Standard microeconomics Neutral Money Legal Tender Business Cycles Free Banking Jacob Viner Central Banking Banking School Manchester School Thomas Tooke Fiduciary Media imperialism Socialism Communism Division of Labor Economic Calculation Friedrich Engels Karl Marx dialectical materialism Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ideology exploitation Marxism Capitalism surplus value Karl Kautsky Monopoly proletariat Standard of Living Unemployment Credit Expansion Frederic Bastiat Free Trade Vilfredo Pareto Carl Menger

Table of Contents · 91 segments

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Front Matter and Table of Contentsfront_matter

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Introduction: The Austrian Perspective and the Critique of Whig Historiographychapter

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Acknowledgementsacknowledgements

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J.B. Say: The French Tradition in Smithian Clothing - The Smithian Conquest and the Ideologueschapter

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J.B. Say's Methodology: The Foundations of Praxeologychapter

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Utility, Productivity, and the Theory of Distributionchapter

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Say's Law of Markets and the Critique of Underconsumptionismchapter

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Say's Theory of Money, Banking, and the Statechapter

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Chapter 1 Notesfootnotes

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Notes on Say's Law and the Vulgarization of Classical Economicstheoretical

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Jeremy Bentham: From Laissez-Faire to Statismchapter

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Bentham's Contribution to Utility Analysis and the Value Paradoxtheoretical

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Personal Utilitarianism: The Critique of the Felicific Calculustheoretical

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Social Utilitarianism and the Greatest Happiness Principletheoretical

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The Panopticon: Bentham's Totalitarian Social Idealchapter

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Notes and References for Chapter 2bibliography

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Critique of Utilitarianism and Chapter 3 Introductiontheoretical

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James Mill, the Radicals' Leninchapter

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The Reform Bill of 1832 and Political Strategychapter

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Mill and Libertarian Class Analysischapter

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Mill and the Ricardian Systemchapter

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Ricardo and Macro-Income Distributionchapter

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Ricardo's Theory of Value and the Law of Comparative Advantagechapter

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Notes on Ricardian Economics and Early Criticsfootnotes

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The Decline of the Ricardian System: Table of Contentstheoretical

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The Conundrum of Ricardo's Popularitytheoretical

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The Rapid Decline of Ricardian Economicstheoretical

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The Theory of Rent and Its Demolitiontheoretical

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Colonel Perronet Thompson: Anti-Ricardian Benthamitetheoretical

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Samuel Bailey and the Subjective Utility Theory of Valuetheoretical

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Nassau Senior and the Whately Connectiontheoretical

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The Dublin School: Longfield, Butt, and Successorstheoretical

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William Forster Lloyd and Utility Theory in Englandtheoretical

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Amos Kendall: A Utility Theorist in Kentuckytheoretical

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Wages, Profits, and Productivitytheoretical

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Abstinence and Time in the Theory of Profitstheoretical

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John Rae and the 'Austrian' Theory of Capitaltheoretical

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Nassau Senior, Praxeology, and the Battle with Milltheoretical

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Notes on the Decline of Ricardianismfootnotes

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Notes and References for Previous Chaptersfootnotes

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Monetary and Banking Thought, I: The Early Bullionist Controversychapter

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The Bullionist Controversy Begins: Early Responseschapter

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Walter Boyd's Letter to Pitt: The Bullionist Positionchapter

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The Anti-Bullionist Response and the Role of Henry Thorntonchapter

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Lord King: The Culmination of Bullionismchapter

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The Irish Currency Question and the 1804 Committeechapter

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John Wheatley and the Emergence of Mechanistic Bullionismchapter

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Notes to Chapter 5footnotes

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Notes and References for Previous Chaptersfootnotes

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Ricardo Enters the Fraychapter

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The Bullion Report and the Gold Bullion Standardchapter

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The Storm over the Bullion Reportchapter

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Deflation and the Return to Goldchapter

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Questioning Fractional-Reserve Banking: Britain and the USchapter

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Monetary and Banking Thought on the Continentchapter

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Notes for Chapter 6footnotes

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Notes to Chapter 6footnotes

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The Trauma of 1825chapter

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The Emergence of the Currency Principlechapter

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Rechartering the Bank of England and the Crisis of 1837chapter

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The Crisis of 1839 and the Banking School Controversychapter

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Triumph of the Currency School: Peel’s Act of 1844chapter

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Tragedy in Triumph and the Aftermath of Peel's Actchapter

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French and German Free Banking Theorists: Horn, Cernuschi, and Hübnertheoretical

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Notes to Chapter 7: The Currency-Banking School Controversyfootnotes

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John Stuart Mill and the Reimposition of Ricardian Economicschapter

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Notes to Chapter 8: John Stuart Millfootnotes

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Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communismchapter

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Marx's Vision of Communism: The Abolition of the Individualchapter

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Alienation, Unity, and the Hegelian Dialecticchapter

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The Marxian System: Historical Materialism and Class Strugglechapter

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Notes to Chapter 12: The Marxian System, Ifootnotes

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The Marxian System, II: The Economics of Capitalism and its Inevitable Demisechapter

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Profit Rates and 'Surplus Value'theoretical

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The 'Laws of Motion', I: The Accumulation and Centralization of Capitaltheoretical

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The 'Laws of Motion', II: The Impoverishment of the Working Classtheoretical

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The 'Laws of Motion', III: Business Cycle Crisestheoretical

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Conclusion: The Marxian System and Chapter 13 Notestheoretical|footnotes

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After Mill: Bastiat and the French Laissez-Faire Traditionchapter

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The French Laissez-Faire School: Key Figures and Historianstheoretical

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Frédéric Bastiat: The Central Figuretheoretical

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The Influence of Bastiat in Europetheoretical

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Gustave de Molinari: First Anarcho-Capitalisttheoretical

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Vilfredo Pareto: Pessimistic Follower of Molinaritheoretical

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Academic Converts and Mavericks: Rau, Macleod, and Hearntheoretical

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Bastiat and Laissez-Faire in Americatheoretical

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Decline of Laissez-Faire and Chapter 14 Notestheoretical|footnotes

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Bibliographical Essay: Say, Bentham, Mill, and Ricardobibliography

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Bibliographical Essay: Anti-Ricardians, Bullionists, and Banking Schoolsbibliography

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Bibliographical Essay: John Stuart Mill and Socialist Thoughtbibliography

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Bibliographical Essay: French Laissez-Faire and Indexbibliography