With clearly written summaries putting each selection into context and useful questions for discussion, this reader should be useful to students and lecturers of the history of economic thought and goes beyond the simple reprinting of articles. Selections and discussions include such thinkers as Aristotle, John Locke, Francois Quesnay, David Hume, Jean Baptiste Say, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher and Thorstein Veblen. The volume can be used as a core textbook or as a supplementary text on courses in economic thought and philosophy. It should provide readers with a good foundation in the different schools of thought that run through economics. Table of Contents I. Pre-Classical Thought , Introductory Notes, 1. Politics and Ethics (300s B.C.), Aristotle 2. Summa Theologica (1267-73), St. Thomas Aquinas 3. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions (1662), Sir William Petty 4. England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664), Thomas Mun 5. Two Treatises of Government (1690) and Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money (1691), John Locke 6. Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Generale (1755), Richard Cantillon 7. Tableau Economique (1758), Francois Quesnay 8. Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth (1770), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot 9. Fable of the Bees (1732), Bernard Mandeville II. The Classical School , Introductory Notes, 10. Political Discourses (on money, interest, and the balance of trade) (1752), David Hume 11. Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith 12. Paper Credit (1802), Henry Thornton 13. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789), Manual of Political Economy (1795), Anarchical Fallacies (1795), Principles of the Civil Code (1802), Jeremy Bentham 14. Essay on Population (1798), Thomas Malthus 15. Of Population (1820), William Godwin 16. The High Price of Bullion (1810), Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817), David Ricardo 17. A Treatise on Pol