• Feudalism and the evolution of economic society; Adam Smith's great vision; Bentham and Malthus - the hedonist and the "pastor"; the distribution of income - Ricardo versus Malthus; the cold water of poverty and the heat of John Stuart Mill's passions; Karl Marx; Alfred Marshall - the great Victorian; Thorstein Veblen takes on the American captains of industry; the jazz age -aftermath of war and prelude to Depression; John Maynard Keynes and the Great Depression; the many modern Keynesians; the monetarists and the new classicals deepen the counterrevolution; economic growth and technology; Schumpeter and capitalism's motion; the many faces of capitalism - Galbraith, Heilbroner and the institutionalists; the rise of the casino economy; the global economy; climbing the economist's mountain to high theory; the future of economics.

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