...Warren J. Samuels deserves great credit for bringing to publication Richard T. Ely's fascinating history of American economic thought, reproducing Ely's 1931 draft manuscript. ...Samuels opens the volume with an excellent fifteen-page editorial introduction. Then follows the body of Ely's draft: twelve chapters and two appendices. ...Appendix 1 deals with collateral subjects, mostly American economists whose work Ely regards as less important. Appendix 2 updates the entire field with Ely's insightful treatment of contemporary (1931) American economics. Journal of Economic Issues

• Part: 1. Introductory. 2. Early American Economics in its European setting. 3. American Protests Against English Economics. 4. The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View in Economics. 5. The Development of the Scientific Point of View in Relation to the Tariff. 6. Henry C. Carey First American Economist. 7. The English Classical School in the United States. 8. "Epigones". 9. Economic Thought in the South. 10. The New Life in American Economics. 11. Francis A. Walker. 12. Two Philosophical Economists: Simon N. Patten and John Bates Clark. Appendices.

...Warren J. Samuels deserves great credit for bringing to publication Richard T. Ely's fascinating history of American economic thought, reproducing Ely's 1931 draft manuscript. ...Samuels opens the volume with an excellent fifteen-page editorial introduction. Then follows the body of Ely's draft: twelve chapters and two appendices. ...Appendix 1 deals with collateral subjects, mostly American economists whose work Ely regards as less important. Appendix 2 updates the entire field with Ely's insightful treatment of contemporary (1931) American economics. Journal of Economic Issues

• Part: 1. Introductory. 2. Early American Economics in its European setting. 3. American Protests Against English Economics. 4. The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View in Economics. 5. The Development of the Scientific Point of View in Relation to the Tariff. 6. Henry C. Carey First American Economist. 7. The English Classical School in the United States. 8. "Epigones". 9. Economic Thought in the South. 10. The New Life in American Economics. 11. Francis A. Walker. 12. Two Philosophical Economists: Simon N. Patten and John Bates Clark. Appendices.