Early economic thought : selections from economic literature prior to Adam Smith / edited by Arthur Eli Monroe.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1924.Edition: Sixth printingDescription: viii, 400 pages, 24 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 31 .M6 1924
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Contents:
I. Aristotle -- II. Xenophon -- III. St. Thomas Aquinas -- IV. Nicole Oresme -- V. Carolus Molinaeus -- VI. Jean Bodin -- VII. Antonio Serra -- VII. Thomas Mun -- IX. Sir William Petty -- X. Philipp Whilhelm von Hornick -- XI. Richard Cantillon -- XII. Ferdinando Gallani -- XIII. David Hume -- XIV. François Quesnay -- XV. Anne Robert Jaques Turgot -- XVI. Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi.
Summary: "For the general outlines of this history and for most of the details all but specialist will have to depend upon manuals and lectures. With no more than this, however, not only does the student lose the critical practice afforded by reading the early writers, but there is great danger that such important terms as Scholasticism and Mercantilism will remain mere abstractions for those who have never read a chapter of Mun's classic, or perhaps even turned the pages of Saint Thomas. The general outline must be supplemented by an adequate sample of the thing described, if a correct impression is to be obtained. For the time period since Adam Smith this has presented little difficulty, but for the earlier period the barriers of language and inaccessibility have been almost insuperable. To meet this need is the object of the present collection of extracts." -- From the Preface
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HB 31 .M6 1924 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20060041

Contains bibliographical references (page 400).

I. Aristotle -- II. Xenophon -- III. St. Thomas Aquinas -- IV. Nicole Oresme -- V. Carolus Molinaeus -- VI. Jean Bodin -- VII. Antonio Serra -- VII. Thomas Mun -- IX. Sir William Petty -- X. Philipp Whilhelm von Hornick -- XI. Richard Cantillon -- XII. Ferdinando Gallani -- XIII. David Hume -- XIV. François Quesnay -- XV. Anne Robert Jaques Turgot -- XVI. Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi.

"For the general outlines of this history and for most of the details all but specialist will have to depend upon manuals and lectures. With no more than this, however, not only does the student lose the critical practice afforded by reading the early writers, but there is great danger that such important terms as Scholasticism and Mercantilism will remain mere abstractions for those who have never read a chapter of Mun's classic, or perhaps even turned the pages of Saint Thomas. The general outline must be supplemented by an adequate sample of the thing described, if a correct impression is to be obtained. For the time period since Adam Smith this has presented little difficulty, but for the earlier period the barriers of language and inaccessibility have been almost insuperable. To meet this need is the object of the present collection of extracts." -- From the Preface

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