pt. I Mainstream Economics from Adam Smith through Macroeconomics --
cap. 1 Adam Smith at the Dawn of Modern Economics --
cap. 2 Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo: New Questions and Analytical Advances --
cap. 3 Alfred Marshall: Master Synthesizer, Innovator, and a Founding Father of Scientific Economics --
cap. 4 John Maynard Keynes and the Rise of Macroeconomics --
cap. 5 Where Money Fits In: Money, Credit, and Finance --
pt. II Breaking Out of the Mainstream --
cap. 6 Karl Marx's Grand Theory of Political Economy --
cap. 7 Thorstein Veblen and Killing the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg --
cap. 8 Joseph Schumpeter and the Drivers of Markets and Economies --
pt. III The End of the Beginning --
cap. 9 Retrospect and Prospect --

This open-minded, multidisciplinary approach challenges existing world views on the endogenous and exogenous forces that drive markets and economies.


• Explores how economists described the forces that drive markets and economies, explains why these descriptions have changed over time, and identifies the impacts that historical events and the growth of the economics profession have had on these descriptions

• Questions whether the mental models and economic assumptions initially proposed by Adam Smith should continue to be used

• Examines not only historic events and the development of economic and socio-political theories but also addresses questions about the future of economics and other social sciences

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