Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Early analyses -- 2.1.The Greek origins -- 2.2.The early Chinese literature on specialization and the market -- 2.3.The treatment of the division of labor in medieval Islamic Scholastics -- 2.4.Private property and commerce in the Medieval Latin Scholastics -- 3.Mercantilists and the emergence of the political economy of the division of labor -- 3.1.Specialization and the market in William Petty's writings and the mercantilist pamphlets on trade -- 3.2.Ernst Ludwig Carl and the emergence of systems -- 3.3.Dr Bernard Mandeville -- 3.4.The French encyclopedists -- 4.The Smithian economics of the division of labor and the market process: the principle -- 4.1.Natural liberty, commercial society and the division of labor: Adam Smith's integrative treatment -- 4.2.The division of labor, increasing returns and the market process: the evolution of ideas from Smith (1776) to Stigler (1951) --

Contents note continued: Appendix to Ch. 4. The Smith - Turgot myth -- 5.Machinery and the factory system: Charles Babbage and Karl Marx on the division of labor in manufacturing -- 5.1.Charles Babbage and Andrew Ure on manufacturing and the factory system -- 5.2.Karl Marx on the division of labor in manufacture -- 5.3.Karl Marx on the evolution of division of labor in the capitalist economy -- Appendix to Ch. 5. The sociology of the negative aspects of the division of labor -- 6.Catallaxy and the division of knowledge: Hayek's insights -- 6.1.The idea of spontaneous social order -- 6.2.Hayek: from "the problem of knowledge" to "the economic problem of society" -- 6.3.Hayek's catallaxy: from the division of labor to the division of knowledge -- 7.Urbanization and industrialization -- 7.1.The town-village division of labor and urbanization -- 7.2.The industrial revolution -- 7.3.Urbanization and industrialization: the causality problem --

Contents note continued: 8.Human capital, the extent of the market and economic growth -- 8.1.Human capital, specialization and risk sharing -- 8.2.The Smithian economics of growth and the market: modern formulations and a revival -- 9.Economic organization and the division of labor -- 9.1.Transaction costs, the firm and institutions -- 9.2.Coordination within the firm: balanced incentives, matching and utilization of knowledge -- 9.3.Transaction costs and the firm: some retrospective remarks.