Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-206) and index.
Contents
Before "the economy" -- Related themes in the natural sciences -- French economics in the enlightenment -- Hume's political economy -- Smith's debts to nature -- Classical political economy in its heyday -- Mill and the early neoclassical economists -- Denaturalizing the economic order.
Note
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Summary
Here the author traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists, she locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science.