Emory University, USA

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• Part I Introduction and background 1. Why worry about the economic ideas of ordinary people? Part II The demand for ideas 2. Adam Smith and the Texas A&M rats 3. Utility-enhancing consumption constraints 4. Ethics and the basics of logic Part III The supply of ideas 5. Adam Smith's 'natural law' and contractual society 6. Who monitors the monitors? with Susan Feigenbaum 7. Property, justice and judgement Part IV Equilibrium ideas 8. Rational choice inm the Homeric epics 9. The statistical basis of Athenian and American constitutional theory 10. Fame and the supply of heroics Part V A competitive episode: the Malthusian controversy 11. Ricardo and the iron law 12. Some normative aspects of the Malthusian controversy 13. Libertarian communists, Malthusians and J. S. Mill - who is both Part IV Objections and applications 14. Must one believe to obey 15. S. T. Coleridge replies to Adam Smith's 'pernicious opinion' 16. The impossibility of a complete methadological individualist 17. Spinoza and the cost of thinking 18. The myth of monopoly

Emory University, USA

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• Part I Introduction and background 1. Why worry about the economic ideas of ordinary people? Part II The demand for ideas 2. Adam Smith and the Texas A&M rats 3. Utility-enhancing consumption constraints 4. Ethics and the basics of logic Part III The supply of ideas 5. Adam Smith's 'natural law' and contractual society 6. Who monitors the monitors? with Susan Feigenbaum 7. Property, justice and judgement Part IV Equilibrium ideas 8. Rational choice inm the Homeric epics 9. The statistical basis of Athenian and American constitutional theory 10. Fame and the supply of heroics Part V A competitive episode: the Malthusian controversy 11. Ricardo and the iron law 12. Some normative aspects of the Malthusian controversy 13. Libertarian communists, Malthusians and J. S. Mill - who is both Part IV Objections and applications 14. Must one believe to obey 15. S. T. Coleridge replies to Adam Smith's 'pernicious opinion' 16. The impossibility of a complete methadological individualist 17. Spinoza and the cost of thinking 18. The myth of monopoly

Emory University, USA

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• Part I Introduction and background 1. Why worry about the economic ideas of ordinary people? Part II The demand for ideas 2. Adam Smith and the Texas A&M rats 3. Utility-enhancing consumption constraints 4. Ethics and the basics of logic Part III The supply of ideas 5. Adam Smith's 'natural law' and contractual society 6. Who monitors the monitors? with Susan Feigenbaum 7. Property, justice and judgement Part IV Equilibrium ideas 8. Rational choice inm the Homeric epics 9. The statistical basis of Athenian and American constitutional theory 10. Fame and the supply of heroics Part V A competitive episode: the Malthusian controversy 11. Ricardo and the iron law 12. Some normative aspects of the Malthusian controversy 13. Libertarian communists, Malthusians and J. S. Mill - who is both Part IV Objections and applications 14. Must one believe to obey 15. S. T. Coleridge replies to Adam Smith's 'pernicious opinion' 16. The impossibility of a complete methadological individualist 17. Spinoza and the cost of thinking 18. The myth of monopoly