The emergence of economic ideas : essays in the history of economics

Mandeville and laissez-faire some institutional aspects of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith and the division of labour - two views or one? Adam Smith, consumer tastes and economic growth Adam Smith on profits - paradox lost and regained another advantage of the division of labour Adam Smith and the stock of moral capital Charles Babbage - pioneer economist Karl Marx on the economic role of science Marx as a student of technology Joseph Schumpeter - radical economist George Stigler - Adam Smith's best friend.