History of Economic Thought

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Ninety-five Theses

  • Period: 1562 to

    French Wars of Religion

    3 mil. dead
  • Period: to

    Early Modern

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years' War

    8 mil. dead
  • The Treaty of Westphalia

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

  • [L] Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money

    [L] Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money
    by John Locke
    The Father of Liberalism
    Supply and demand theory
    .
    Influenced:
    - Voltaire
    - Rousseau
    - Scottish Enlightenment
    - American revolutionaries
  • Period: to

    Scottish Enlightenment

  • [E] Political Discourses

    [E] Political Discourses
    by David Hume
  • [SOCIALIST PHIL] [L] Discourse on Inequality

    [SOCIALIST PHIL] [L] Discourse on Inequality
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • [B] (ESSAI) Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

    written in 1730
    by Richard Cantillon
    Irish-French economist
    Father of economics
  • [B] The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    [B] The Theory of Moral Sentiments
    by Adam Smith
    Complementary book: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
  • [SOCIALIST PHIL] [B] The Social Contract

    [SOCIALIST PHIL] [B] The Social Contract
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • [B] The Wealth of Nations

    [B] The Wealth of Nations
    by Adam Smith
    Full title: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
    Complementary book: The Theory of Moral Sentiments
  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • [SOCIALIST PHIL] [B] The Communist Manifesto

    by Karl Marx
  • [SOCIALISM] [B] Das Kapital

    Capital, Volume I
    by Karl Marx
  • Period: to

    Socialism in practice