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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The History of Economics | |
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| What is Economics? | |
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| Viewing the Past through the Lens of the Present | |
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| The Story Told Here | |
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| The Ancient World | |
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| Homer and Hesiod | |
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| Estate Management--Xenophon's Oikonomikos | |
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| Plato's Ideal State | |
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| Aristotle on Justice and Exchange | |
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| Aristotle and the Acquisition of Wealth | |
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| Rome | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| The Decline of Rome | |
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| Judaism | |
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| Early Christianity | |
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| Islam | |
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| From Charles Martel to the Black Death | |
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| The Twelfth-Century Renaissance and Economics in the Universities | |
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| Nicole Oresme and the Theory of Money | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Emergence of the Modern World View--the Sixteenth Century | |
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| The Renaissance and the Emergence of Modern Science | |
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| The Reformation | |
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| The Rise of the European Nation State | |
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| Mercantilism | |
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| Machiavelli | |
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| The School of Salamanca and American Treasure | |
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| England under the Tudors | |
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| Economics in the Sixteenth Century | |
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| Science, Politics and Trade in Seventeenth-Century England | |
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| Background | |
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| Science and the Scientists of the Royal Society | |
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| Political Ferment | |
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| Economic Problems--Dutch Commercial Power and the Crisis of the 1620s | |
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| The Balance-of-Trade Doctrine | |
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| The Rate of Interest and the Case for Free Trade | |
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| The Recoinage Crisis of the 1690s | |
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| Economics in Seventeenth-Century England | |
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| Absolutism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France | |
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| Problems of the Absolute State | |
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| Early-Eighteenth-Century Critics of Mercantilism | |
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| Cantillon on the Nature of Commerce in General | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Physiocracy | |
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| Turgot | |
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| Economic Thought under the Ancien Reacute;gime 109 | |
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| The Scottish Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Background | |
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| Hutcheson | |
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| Hume | |
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| Sir James Steuart | |
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| Adam Smith | |
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| Division of Labour and the Market | |
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| Capital Accumulation | |
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| Smith and Laissez-Faire | |
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| Economic Thought at the End of the Eighteenth Century 130 | |
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| Classical Political Economy, 1790-1870 | |
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| From Moral Philosophy to Political Economy | |
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| Utilitarianism and the Philosophic Radicals | |
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| Ricardian Economics | |
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| Alternatives to Ricardian Economics | |
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| Government Policy and the Role of the State | |
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| Money | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| Karl Marx | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Split between History and Theory in Europe, 1870-1914 | |
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| The Professionalization of Economics | |
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| Jevons, Walras and Mathematical Economics | |
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| Economics in Germany and Austria | |
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| Historical Economics and the Marshallian School in Britain | |
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| European Economic Theory, 1900-1914 | |
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| The Rise of American Economics, 1870-1939 | |
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| US Economics in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| John Bates Clark | |
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| Mathematical Economics | |
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| Thorstein Veblen | |
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| John R. Commons | |
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| Inter-War Pluralism | |
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| Inter-War Studies of Competition | |
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| The Migration of European Academics | |
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| US Economics in the Mid Twentieth Century | |
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| Money and the Business Cycle, 1898-1939 | |
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| Wicksell's Cumulative Process | |
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| The Changed Economic Environment | |
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| Austrian and Swedish Theories of the Business Cycle | |
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| Britain: From Marshall to Keynes | |
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| The American Tradition | |
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| Keynes's General Theory | |
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| The Keynesian Revolution | |
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| The Transition from Inter-War to Post-Second World War Macroeconomics | |
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| Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, 1930 to the Present | |
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| The Mathematization of Economics | |
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| The Revolution in National-Income Accounting | |
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| The Econometric Society and the Origins of Modern Econometrics | |
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| Frisch, Tinbergen and the Cowles Commission | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| General-Equilibrium Theory | |
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| Game Theory | |
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| The Mathematization of Economics (Again) | |
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| Welfare Economics and Socialism | |
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| to the Present | |
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| Socialism and Margin | |