ABSTRACT

The present book is a second collection of my essays on the history of economics, the first concentrating on the previous centuries, particularly the eighteenth. This book, as its title satisfactorily indicates, includes a selection of my contributions to nineteenth-and twentieth-century economics. Their original publication dates range from 1967 to 2001, hence once again reflecting my extensive interest in the whole of the history of economics, sustained over the greater part of my academic career. They also reflect a variety of interests and a generalist approach to the subject, which may be considered as out of place in an age of ever-increasing specialisation. A list of the contents ranked chronologically in terms of original dates of publication (or completion) appears as an appendix to this introduction.