Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: It All Started with Adam; 2: The French Connection: Laissez Faire Avance!; 3: The Irreverent Malthus Challenges the New Model of Prosperity; 4: Tricky Ricardo Takes Economics Down a Dangerous Road; 5: Milling Around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists Search for Utopia; 6: Marx Madness Plunges Economics into a New Dark Age; 7: Out of the Blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians Reverse the Tide.; 8: Marshalling the Troops: Scientific Economics Comes of Age; 9: Go West, Young Man: Americans Solve the Distribution Problem in Economics; 10: The Conspicuous Veblen Versus the Protesting Weber: Two Critics Debate the Meaning of Capitalism; 11: The Fisher King Tries to Catch the Missing Link in Macroeconomics; 12: The Missing Mises: Mises (And Wicksell) Make a Major Breakthrough; 13: The Keynes Mutiny: Capitalism Faces Its Greatest Challenge; 14: Paul Raises the Keynesian Cross: Samuelson and Modern Economics; 15: Milton's Paradise: Friedman Leads a Monetary Counterrevolution; 16: The Creative Destruction of Socialism: The Dark Vision of Joseph Schumpeter; 17: Dr. Smith Goes to Washington: The Near Triumph of Market Economics