Werner Stark. The Ideal Foundations of Economic Thought.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CLASSICAL ECONOMICS

I – The Great Antithesis: Man and Nature

II – The Great Synthesis: The Order Divine

THE END OF CLASSICAL ECONOMICS, OR LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM AT THE CROSSROADS

I – The Libertarian Alternative: Thomas Hodgskin

II – The Egalitarian Alternative: William Thompson

THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN ECONOMICS

I – The Disappearance of the Old Social Philosophy

II – The Dissolution of the Old Social Ideal

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