It all started with Adam -- The French connection: Laissez faire avance! -- The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- Milling around: John Stuart Mill and the socialists search for utopia -- Marx madness plunges economics into a new dark age -- Out of the blue Danube: Menger and the Austrians reverse the tide -- Marshalling the troops: scientific economics comes of age -- Go west, young man: Americans solve the distribution problem in economics -- The conspicuous Veblen versus the protesting Weber: two critics debate the meaning of capitalism -- The Fisher King tries to catch the missing link in macroeconomics -- The missing Mises: Mises (and Wicksell) make a major breakthrough -- The Keynes mutiny: capitalism faces its greatest challenge -- Paul raises the Keynesian cross: Samuelson and modern economics -- Milton's paradise: friedman leads a monetary counterrevolution -- The creative destruction of socialism: the dark vision of Joseph Schumpeter -- Dr. Smith goes to Washington: the triumph of market economics.
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