ch. 1. Economics in the days before the mercantile system -- ch. 2. The mercantile system -- ch. 3. Individualist natural right -- ch. 4. An introduction to the basic problem of sociology : individualism versus universalism -- ch. 5. Transition to the physiocratic system -- ch. 6. The...

1. The European economy in the late eighteenth century -- 2. Population growth and migration -- 3. Technological change -- 4. The French revolution and the continental system -- 5. The economic development of France 1815-70 -- 6. The economic development of Germany 1815-70 -- 7. The economic...

1. Sea change in the west -- 2. Global theories of secular stagnation -- 3. Transition theory -- 4. Empirical aspects of the transition theory -- 5. The long wave hypothesis -- 6. Transition in the nineteenth century : the British climateric 1860-1900 -- 7. A re-run of the 1970s -- 8. The...

First published in 1922, Hobson's study of the depression and resulting unemployment in the aftermath of the First World War is a far-sighted analysis which looks beyond the consequences of the war itself, at the root economic causes of the crisis. Dealing with issues such as the failure of...

1. A limited market -- 2. The failure of consumption -- 3. The balance of spending and saving -- 4. The psychology of trade fluctuations -- 5. Surplus income the cause of fluctuations -- 6. Wage reduction as remedy for depression -- 7. Credit as a factor in fluctuations -- 8. The Douglas theory...

1. Class influences in early youth -- 2. An early heresy -- 3. Humanism and rationalism -- 4. Contacts with political and ethical movements -- 5. South African and American studies -- 6. The rise of sociology in England -- 7. Politics and journalism -- 8. The Great War and its aftermath -- 9....