Staining to jacket edges, heavy foxing on page ridges & jacket, ink note on front endpaper, pages toned. 1952 Hard Cover. 217 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; SYSTEM OF ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Subject and Plan of the Lectures; Object of Economic Activity; System of Economic Freedom; Alleged Bias of the Classical Economists; A Harmonielehre?; Finance and Automatism; ECONOMIC FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE: Popular Mythology; Specimens of Extreme Individualism; Classical Theory; Naturrecht and Utility; Theory of Property; State Action and the System of Economic Freedom; Distribution of Property and Income; CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE: Lord Lindsay on the Classical Economists; Theory of Population; Richardian Paradoxes; Health and Education; Poor Laws; Contract and Factory Legislation; Wages and Combinations; CLASSICAL ECONOMISTS AND SOCIALISM: HUME TO SENIOR: Introduction; Hume and Adam Smith; Bentham; Malthus; Ricardians and Robert Owen; Senior and the '48; CLASSICAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIALISM: JOHN STUART MILL: Introduction; J.S Mill and the Saint Simonians; First Edition of the Principles; Third Edition of the Principles; Posthumous Chapters on Socialism; Interpretation of the Variations; CLASSICAL THEORY IN GENERAL PERSPECTIVE: Introduction; Classical Economists as Reformers; Theory of Policy and Political Economy; Theory of Policy and the Principle of Unity; Individualism as an End; Individualism as a Means: the System of Economic Freedom Once Again; Classical Economists and the Forms of Government; Conclusion. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lionel Charles Robbins, Baron Robbins (1898 - 1984) was a British economist. He is known for his proposed definition of economics, and for his instrumental efforts in shifting Anglo-Saxon economics from its Marshallian direction. -- Wikipedia

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