Masterworks of economics : digests of 10 great classics / edited by Leonard Dalton Abbott.

2 volumes.

England's treasure by foreign trade, by Thomas Mun.--Reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth, by Anne R.J. Turgot.--The wealth of nations, by Adam Smith.--An essay on the principle of population, by T.R. Malthus.--Principles of political economy and taxation, by David Ricardo.--A new view of society, by Robert Owen.--Principles of political economy, by J.S. Mill.--Capital, by Karl Marx.--Progress and poverty, by Henry George.--The theory of the leisure class, by Thorstein Veblen.

From the time of the ancient Greeks, the great thinkers of the West have tackled the problems of the distribution of wealth -- who shall get what, how much, and why; yet it is only with the disintegration of feudalism in Europe, the opening up of world markets, and the rise of the bourgeoisie that economics emerges as a unique discipline. In this set of three volumes, ten milestones of mature economic thought are presented in digest form for the modern reader.