Introduction; D. Reisman. 1. Communism, Sparta and Plato; S. Bostaph. 2. Sir James Steuart on the Managed Market; A. Karayiannis. 3. Economic Theory and Policy: an Introduction to John Stuart Mill's Political Economy; S. Hollander. 4. Church, State and Market: Accent on the Social; T. Nitsch. 5. State and Market when Command goes Capitalist; A.A. Schmid. 6. Schumpeter and Capitalism in an Era of Transition; D. Simpson. 7. Cultural Evolution, Collective Learning and Constitutional Design; V. Vanberg. 8. Health and Choice: the Contribution of James Buchanan; D. Reisman. Index.
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People live by ideas which help them to make sense of their experiences. Economic Thought and Political Theory, concentrates on the ideas of Plato, Steuart, Mill, Schumpeter, Hayek, Buchanan, the Catholic social economists and the property-rights tradition.