Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Economic ideas before Adam Smith -- Adam Smith -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- David Ricardo -- Rationalistic subjectivism: The economics of Bentham, Say and Senior -- Political economy of the poor: The ideas of William Thompson and Thomas Hodgskin -- Pure versus eclectic utilitarianism: The writings of Bastiat and Mill -- Karl Max -- The triumph of utilitarianism: The economics of Jevons, Menger and Walras -- Neoclassical theories of the firm and income distribution: The writings of Marshall, Clark and Bohm-Bawerk -- Thorstein Veblen -- Theories of imperialism: The writings of Hobson, Luxemberg and Lenin -- Consummation, consecration, and destruction of invisible hand: Neoclassical welfare economics -- Neoclassical ideology and the myth of the self adjusting market: The writings of John Maynard Keynes -- Annulment of the myth of the measurable productivity of capital: The writings of Piero Sraffa -- Contemporary economics I: The bifurcation of orthodoxy -- Contemporary economics II: Institutionalism and Post-Keynesianism --Contemporay economics III: The revival of critical political economy.