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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| 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: Karl Marx, editor: Friedrich Engels, translator: Ernest Untermann |
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital |
1885 |
| 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 Elliot Cairnes |
The Character and Logical Method of Political Economy |
1861 |
| 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: James M. Buchanan, foreword: Hartmut Kliemt |
The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 6 (Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory) |
1969 |
| author: Philip H. Wicksteed |
The Commonsense of Political Economy, including a Study of the Human Basis of Economic Law |
1910 |
| 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: John Bates Clark |
The Distribution of Wealth: A Theory of Wages, Interest and Profits |
1899 |
| author: Frédéric Bastiat, editor: George B. de Huszar, translator: W. Hayden Boyers, introduction: Dean Russell |
Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) |
1850 |
| 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: James Mill |
Elements of Political Economy |
1821 |
| 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: Carl Menger |
Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre |
1871 |
| author: Ludwig von Mises, introduction: Bettina Bien Greaves |
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (FEE ed.) |
1949 |
| 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: Richard Whately |
Introductory Lectures on Political Economy |
1831 |
| author: Mountifort Longfield |
Lectures on Political Economy |
1834 |
| 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: Nassau William Senior |
Political Economy |
1850 |
| author: Francis Amasa Walker |
Political Economy |
1887 |
| author: Thomas Hodgskin |
Popular Political Economy. Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution |
1827 |
| author: Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, translator: William A. Smart |
The Positive Theory of Capital |
1889 |
| author: Walter Bagehot, foreword: Alfred Marshall |
The Postulates of English Political Economy |
1885 |
| author: Alfred Marshall |
Principles of Economics (8th ed.) |
1890 |
| 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: William Stanley Jevons |
The Theory of Political Economy |
1871 |
| author: Jean Baptiste Say, translator: Charles Robert Prinsep, editor: Clement C. Biddle |
A Treatise on Political Economy |
1803 |
| author: Knut Wicksell, translator: Margarethe Langfeldt |
Vorlesungen über Nationalökonomie auf Grundlage des Marginalprinzipes. Vol. 1 Theoretischer Teil |
1913 |
| author: Knut Wicksell, translator: Margarethe Langfeldt |
Vorlesungen über Nationalökonomie auf Grundlage des Marginalprinzipes. Vol. 2 Theoretischer Teil. Geld und Kredit |
1922 |
| author: Edwin Cannan |
Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Wealth |
1914 |
| 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 |
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