Reading the Classics

Reading The Classics (for Enrichment)

I. Provide an E-Book or a PDF copy of the book (if possible)

II. Format (short bond paper; Arial 11; Single Space; 1-inch margin on all sides)

A. 1- page biography of the author and historical background of the time when the book was written and published

B. 1-page Chapter Summary (choose only 1 chapter)

C. 1-page Definition of Terms and Reaction/Discussion/Criticism/Comparison of the topic or issue in the chapter to current discourse on the topic

The number of the book corresponds to the class number of each student (nos. 30 to 38 are other options that you may choose provided you inform the teacher beforehand)

1. Adam Smith ‘s An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)

2. David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)

3. Thomas Malthus' Essay on Population (1798)

4. John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848 )

5. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital vol.1 (1867)

6. William Stanley Jevons’ The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

7. Leon Walras’ Elements of Pure Economics (1874)

8. Vilfredo Pareto’s Manuale D’Economia Politica (1906)

9. Alfred Marshal’s Principles of Economics (1890)

10. Alfred Marshal’s The Great Crash (1929)

11. Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)

12. Joseph Schumpeter’s Business Cycles Vol. 1(1939)

13. Arthur Cecil Pigou’s The economics of welfare (1920)

14. Edward Chamberlin’s Theory of Monopolistic Competition (1933)

15. Joan Robinson’s Economics of Imperfect Competition (1933)

16. Johnn Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)

17. Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

18. John Rogers Commons’ Legal Foundations of Capitalism (1924)

19. John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society (1969)

20. Roy Harrod’s Towards a Dynamic Economics (1948)

21. Milton Friedman’s A Monetary History of the US (1963)

22. Eli Filip Hecksher’s Mercantilism Vol. 1(1935)

23. Bertil Ohlin’s Interregional and International Trade (1934)

24. Theodore William Schultz’ Transforming Traditional Agriculture (1964)

25. William Arthur Lewis’ The Theory of Economic Growth (195)

26. Milton Friedman’s Essays in Positive Economics (1953)

27. Joseph Schumpeter’s Business Cycles Vol. 2(1939)

28. William Arthur Lewis’ The Principles of Economic Planning (1949)

29. John Kenneth Galbraith’s The New Industrial State (1967)

30. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital vol.2 (1885)

31. William Stanley Jevons’ General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy (1862)

32. William Stanley Jevons’ The State in Relation to Labour (1882)

33. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital vol.3 (1894)

34. John Rogers Commons’ Institutional Economics (1934)

35. Eli Filip Hecksher’s Mercantilism Vol. 2(1935)

36. Joseph Schumpeter’s History of Economic Analysis (1951)

37. Joseph Schumpeter’s The Theory of Economic Development (1912)

38. William Stanley Jevons’ A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold (1863)

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