Introduction 1. Pre-Adamite economics 2. Adam Smith 3. Population, diminishing returns and rent 4. Ricardo's system 5. Say's Law and classical monetary theory 6. John Stuart Mill 7. Marxian economics 8. The marginal revolution 9. Marshallian economics: utility and demand 10. Marshallian economics: cost and supply 11. Marginal productivity and factor prices 12. The Austrian theory of capital and interest1. 13. General equilibrium and welfare economics 14. Spatial economics and the classical theory of location 15. The neoclassical theory of money, interest and prices 16. Macroeconomics 17. A methodological postscript.