University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

expand sectionV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionIII. 
collapse sectionIII. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIV. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionII. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionI. 
expand sectionIII. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionVI. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionVII. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 
expand sectionV. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Background for this topic, and important bibliographies,
can be found especially in Joseph A. Schumpeter, History
of Economic Analysis
(New York, 1954; published posthu-
mously), and Edmund Whittaker, A History of Economic
Ideas
(New York, 1939). Other useful volumes are: Eric Roll,
A History of Economic Thought (New York, 1939; 3rd ed.,
1942); J. F. Bell, History of Economic Thought (New York,
1953); Alexander Gray, The Development of Economic Doc-
trine
(London and New York, 1931); the last is less compre-
hensive than the others. Valuable for the history of “laissez-
faire” are D. H. Macgregor, Economic Thought and Policy
(Oxford, 1949); and Edward R. Kittrell, “'Laissez-Faire' in
English Classical Economics,” Journal of the History of
Ideas,
27 (1966), 610-20. Additional studies are Edwin
Cannan, A History of the Theories of Production and Distri-
bution in English Political Economy from 1776 to 1848,
3rd
ed. (London, 1924); Mark Blaug, Ricardian Economics: A
Historical Study
(New Haven and London, 1958); and Paul
T. Homan, Contemporary Thought (New York, 1928).

The following are the best editions of economic classics.
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, ed. Edwin Cannan,
2 vols. (London and New York, 1904). It is available in
reprints, and in a useful abridgment of W. J. Ashley, Selected
Chapters and Passages from The Wealth of Nations
(London,
1895; 1906). David Ricardo, Principles of Political Economy
and Taxation,
Vol. I of Works and Correspondence, ed. P.
Sraffa and M. H. Dobb, 10 vols. (Cambridge, 1951-55). John
Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, ed. W. J. Ashley
(London and New York, 1909). A new version has an intro-
duction by V. W. Bladen, textual editor J. M. Robson,
2 vols. (Toronto, 1965). E. von Böhm-Bawerk's chief works
are Kapital and Kapitalzins, Vol. I, Geschichte und Kritik
der Kapitalzinstheorien
(Innsbruck, 1884), trans. William
Smart as Capital and Interest (London, 1890; 1932); Vol.
II, Positive Theories des Kapitals (Innsbruck, 1889), trans.
William Smart as The Positive Theory of Capital (London,
1891; 1923).

On Socialism the following are recommended: Alexander
Gray, The Socialist Tradition, Moses to Lenin (London and
New York, 1946; reprint 1968); and Harry W. Laidler, His-
tory of Socialism,
rev. ed. (New York, 1968).

Still useful is R. H. I. Palgrave, Dictionary of Political
Economy,
ed. Henry Higgs, 3 vols. (London and New York,
1926).

FRANK H. KNIGHT

[See also Anarchism; Authority; Cycles; Democracy; Eco-
nomic Theory of Natural Liberty;
Enlightenment; Equality;
Freedom; Individualism; Liberalism; Marxism; Nationalism;
Progress; Property; Socialism; State.]