Gilbert Faccarello is Emeritus Professor at Panthéon-Assas University, France. He is a co-founder of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and co-editor of the Routledge Historical Resources site devoted to the History of Economic Thought.Claire Silvantis is Associate Professor of Economics at the Université Lumière, France, and a member of the research centre Triangle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She also was in charge of a research programme on the history of public economics sponsored by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

• Part I. Political Economy in the Age of Industry 1. Prelude I. Political economy in the age of industry Claire Silvant 2. The founding fathers of the French liberal thought: L.-C.-C. Destutt de Tracy and Jean-Baptiste Say Alain Béraud & Guy Numa 3. Liberal economists after Say Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant 4. Antoine-Augustin Cournot and the emergence of mathematical economics Alain Béraud & Guy Numa 5. Jules Dupuit and the ‘ingénieurs économistes’ Claire Silvant 6. Léon Walras. A trilogy of pure, applied and social economics Jean-Pierre Potier 7. Tradition and innovation at the turn of the twentieth century Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant Part II. Critiques of Liberal Political Economy 8. Prelude II. Introduction to the critiques of political economy Gilbert Faccarello 9. Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi Pascal Bridel 10. Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians Ragıp Ege 11. Associationists and socialists: the first debates Clément Coste & Ludovic Frobert 12. Fin-de-siècle socialisms Vincent Bourdeau 13. The sociological critique of liberal political economy Philippe Steiner 14. Postlude. After World War I Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant

"[T]he editors are to be congratulated on having at last brought into view the sheer variety of nineteenth century French economic thought, and given us the means to begin to understand it."- Keith Tribe, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought