Preface -- Economics and Its History -- Ancient and Medieval Economic Thought -- Mercantilism and the Dawn of Capitalism -- Economics Before Adam Smith: Irish, French, and Spanish Roots -- Adam Smith: System Builder -- Classical Economics (I): Utility, Population, and Money -- Classical Economics (II): The Ricardian System and Its Critics -- Classical Economics (III): John Stuart Mill -- Economic Policy in the Classical Period -- Karl Marx and the Revolt Against Classical Economics -- Neoclassical Theorists Ahead of Their Time: Cournot and Dupuit -- Microeconomics in Germany and Austria: Menger, Wieser, and Bohm-Bawerk -- Microeconomics in England: William Stanley Jevons -- Alfred Marshall and the Neoclassical Synthesis -- The Vision and Impact of Leon Walras -- Thorstein Veblen and American Institutional Economics -- Competition Reconsidered: Chamberlin and Robinson -- John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory, and the Development of Modern Macroeconomics -- Contemporary Macroeconomics: The Quantity Theory, Monetarism, and Rational Expectations -- Austrian Economics -- Public Choice and Regulation: The New Political Economy -- Contemporary Microeconomics: A Rich and Movable Feast -- Postscript: Ideas, Events, and Economic Method -- Acknowledgments -- Indexes -- Name Index -- Subject Index.