Suspicions of Markets

Donald Rutherford is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Edinburgh, UK, having previously worked as an investment analyst and financial journalist in the City of London. He has taught a range of courses over the years, including labour economics, the trade cycle, economic policy and comparative economic systems. Rutherford has drawn on this breadth of expertise to write a dictionary of economics, first published in 1992. He currently specialises in the history of economic thought.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The case for markets.- Chapter 3: The start of the criticism: Aristotle.- Chapter 4: After the Greeks.- Chapter 5: Nineteenth century critics of the market.- Chapter 6: Later critics-. Chapter 7: An analysis of the principal criticisms.- Chapter 8: How to cope with flawed markets.