This is a collection of general works on the principles of economic thought. They are ususally one volume treatments of economics in which the author presents the basic assumptions about economic life and human behaviour on which economics is based; the main principles of the discipline; how the different branches of economics are related; and the author’s own bias or perspective on the discipline. Some of these works were written for popular audiences (such as Hodgskin and Bastiat) whilst others were written for those with a strong economics background (Mill, Marx, Menger).
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title |
pub. date ↑ |
| author: Adam Smith, editor: Roy Harold Campbell, editor: Andrew S. Skinner |
Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 2a An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1 |
1776 |
| author: Adam Smith, editor: Andrew S. Skinner, editor: Roy Harold Campbell |
Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence Vol. 2b An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Vol. 2 |
1776 |
| author: Adam Smith, editor: Edwin Cannan |
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), in 2 vols. |
1776 |
| author: Adam Smith, editor: Edwin Cannan |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), vol. 1 |
1776 |
| author: Adam Smith, editor: Edwin Cannan |
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), vol. 2 |
1776 |
| author: Jean Baptiste Say, translator: Charles Robert Prinsep, editor: Clement C. Biddle |
A Treatise on Political Economy |
1803 |
| author: David Ricardo, editor: Piero Sraffa, editor: Maurice Herbert Dobb |
The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 1 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation |
1817 |
| author: James Mill |
Elements of Political Economy |
1821 |
| author: John Ramsay McCulloch |
The Principles of Political Economy: with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science (1st ed.) |
1825 |
| author: Thomas Robert Malthus |
Definitions in Political Economy |
1827 |
| author: Thomas Hodgskin |
Popular Political Economy. Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution |
1827 |
| author: Richard Whately |
Introductory Lectures on Political Economy |
1831 |
| author: Mountifort Longfield |
Lectures on Political Economy |
1834 |
| author: Thomas Robert Malthus |
Principles of Political Economy |
1836 |
| author: Friedrich List, introduction: Karl Theodor Eheberg |
Das National System der politischen Oekonomie |
1841 |
| author: Friedrich List, introduction: Joseph Shield Nicholson, translator: Sampson S. Lloyd |
The National System of Political Economy |
1841 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: John M. Robson, introduction: Vincent Wheeler Bladen |
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume II - The Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (Books I-II) |
1848 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: John M. Robson, introduction: Vincent Wheeler Bladen |
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume III - Principles of Political Economy Part II |
1848 |
| author: John Stuart Mill, editor: Sir William James Ashley |
Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (Ashley ed.) |
1848 |
| author: Frédéric Bastiat, editor: George B. de Huszar, translator: W. Hayden Boyers, introduction: Dean Russell |
Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) |
1850 |
| author: Nassau William Senior |
Political Economy |
1850 |
| author: Gustave de Molinari |
Cours d’Économie Politique 2 vols. |
1854 |
| author: Gustave de Molinari |
Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 1 |
1854 |
| author: Gustave de Molinari |
Cours d’Économie Politique vol. 2 |
1854 |
| author: Dugald Stewart, editor: Sir William Hamilton |
Lectures on Political Economy, 2 vols. |
1855 |
| author: Dugald Stewart, editor: Sir William Hamilton |
Lectures on Political Economy, vol. 1 |
1855 |
| author: Frédéric Bastiat, editor: Prosper Paillottet |
Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat, vol. 6 Harmonies économiques (1st ed. 1855) |
1855 |
| author: Dugald Stewart, editor: Sir William Hamilton |
Lectures on Political Economy, vol. 2 |
1856 |
| author: John Elliot Cairnes |
The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy |
1861 |
| author: John Ramsay McCulloch |
The Principles of Political Economy (5th ed.) |
1864 |
| author: Karl Marx, editor: Samuel Moore, translator: Edward Aveling, editor: Friedrich Engels, translator: Ernest Untermann |
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production |
1867 |
| author: Carl Menger |
Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre |
1871 |
| author: William Stanley Jevons |
The Theory of Political Economy |
1871 |
| author: Karl Marx, editor: Friedrich Engels, translator: Ernest Untermann |
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital |
1885 |
| author: Walter Bagehot, foreword: Alfred Marshall |
The Postulates of English Political Economy |
1885 |
| author: Francis Amasa Walker |
Political Economy |
1887 |
| author: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, translator: William A. Smart |
The Positive Theory of Capital |
1889 |
| author: Alfred Marshall |
Principles of Economics (8th ed.) |
1890 |
| author: Karl Marx, editor: Friedrich Engels, translator: Ernest Untermann |
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole |
1894 |
| author: John Bates Clark |
The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest and Profits |
1899 |
| author: Philip H. Wicksteed |
The Commonsense of Political Economy, including a Study of the Human Basis of Economic Law |
1910 |
| author: Knut Wicksell, translator: Margarethe Langfeldt |
Vorlesungen über Nationalökonomie auf Grundlage des Marginalprinzipes. Vol. 1 Theoretischer Teil |
1913 |
| author: Edwin Cannan |
Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Wealth |
1914 |
| author: Frank A. Fetter |
Economics, 2 vols. |
1915 |
| author: Frank A. Fetter |
Economics, vol. 1: Economic Principles |
1915 |
| author: Frank A. Fetter |
Economics, vol. 2: Modern Economic Problems |
1916 |
| author: Knut Wicksell, translator: Margarethe Langfeldt |
Vorlesungen über Nationalökonomie auf Grundlage des Marginalprinzipes. Vol. 2 Theoretischer Teil. Geld und Kredit |
1922 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, introduction: Bettina Bien Greaves |
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (FEE ed.) |
1949 |
| author: Israel M. Kirzner, editor: Peter J. Boettke, editor: Frédéric Sautet |
Market Theory and the Price System |
1963 |
| author: James M. Buchanan, foreword: Hartmut Kliemt |
The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 6 (Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory) |
1969 |
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