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    Topic: History of Economic Thought: What is Economics?

    Blaug, Mark, Economic Theory in Retrospect

    Heckscher, Eli, Mercantilism

    Heilbroner, Robert, The Worldly Philosophers

    Hirschman, Albert, The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    Kirzner, Israel, The Economic Point of View

    Knight, Frank, On the History and Method of Economics

    Levy, David M. and Sandra J. Peart, The Secret History of the Dismal Science

      Multipart, illustrated series of articles on the parallel relationships between economists and anti-slavery advocates in the mid- to late 1800s. Contrasts pro-slavery writers such as Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens with economists of the period, showing how those popular authors used pro-slavery language and symbolism, and linked slurs of the anti-slavery movement to contemporary economics debates. Difficulty Level 1: College
    Rothbard, Murray, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

    Schumpeter, Joseph, A History of Economic Analysis

    Sowell, Thomas, Marxism: Philosophy and Economics

    Sowell, Thomas, Classical Economics Reconsidered

    Sowell, Thomas, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

    Teacher's Corner, A Brief History of the Concept of Comparative Advantage

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