Classical Economics


The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Principles of Economics (Great Minds)
Principles of Political Economy
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Elements of Pure Economics, or The Theory of Social Wealth
Das Kapital
Interest and Prices - A Study of the Causes Regulating the Value of Money
On Liberty
A Treatise on Political Economy
Economics: The User's Guide
Notes on Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy
Adam Smith’s System: A Re-Interpretation Inspired by Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric, Game Theory, and Conjectural History (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought)
On the Origins of Classical Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
An Essay on Economic Theory
Gregory Clark
Preindustrial living standards are predictable based on knowledge of disease and environment. Differences in social energy across societies were muted by the Malthusian constraints. They had minimal impacts on living conditions. Since the Industrial Revolution, however, we have entered a strange new world in which economic theory is of little use in understanding differences in income across societies, or the future income in any specific society. Wealth and poverty are a matter of differences i ...more
Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World