Publisher's Synopsis
This book attempts a fairly systematic and comprehensive survey of economic thought from the Great Depression to the World Slump, or from Jevons to Keynes. The first and largest part of the book gives an account of the leading architects of neo-classical economics one by one, and some of their best known critics. Part II mainly covers a period when specialist books and articles were tending to replace the comprehensive treatise of principles, as the main vehicle of progress. Part III is devoted to the partly separate story of theories of crises and cycles from 1870 onwards.
