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Book SynopsisRanking 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 the greatest historian of economic thought that ever l
Trade Review"This attractive collection of nineteen of Viner's richest essay efforts concerning the evolution of economists' thinking ... is a rare book, one which anyone who aspires for his mind to be more than an intellectual machine should read, reflect upon, react to, and then decide what he thinks about what some call economic science."--Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*1. Five Lectures on Economics and Freedom, pg. 39*2. Adam Smith and Laissez Faire, pg. 85*3. MARSHALL'S ECONOMICS, IN RELATION TO THE MAN AND TO HIS TIMES, pg. 114*4. POWER VERSUS PLENTY AS O B J E C T I V E S OF FOREIGN POLICY IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES, pg. 128*5. BENTHAM AND J. s. MILL: THE UTILITARIAN BACKGROUND, pg. 154*6. Introduction to Bernard Mandeville, A Letter to Dion (1732), pg. 176*7. "Fashion" in Economic Thought, pg. 189*8. The Intellectual History of Laissez Faire, pg. 200*9. The Economist in History 226, pg. 226*10. Adam Smith, pg. 248*11. Mercantilist Thought, pg. 262*12. Man's Economic Status, pg. 277*13. Satire and Economics in the August an Age of Satire, pg. 303*14. Schumpeter's History of Economic Analysis, pg. 327*15. Hayek on Freedom and Coercion, pg. 346*16. "Possessive Individualism" as Original Sin, pg. 357*17. The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill, pg. 376*18. A Modest Proposal for Some Stress on Scholarship in Graduate Training, pg. 385*19. Address at the University of Toronto Convocation, pg. 396*Index, pg. 401
