Price theory has always been and still is at the heart of economic theory. Concentrating on the primary literature, this set brings together texts of the many and often conflicting intelectual endeavours to solve this difficult economic issue.
Volume 1 Part I: Aristotle and the Theory of Exchange Introduction Selection from Politics (c. 350 BCE) Selection from Nicomachean Ethics (c. 350 BCE) Part II: Aquinas and the Notion of Just Price’ Introduction Selection from Summa Theologica (c. 1265-74) Part III: Pre-Smithian Contributions Introduction Selection from Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money (1691) Selection from A Discourse of Trade (1690) ‘Value of Land’ and ‘The Dialogue of Diamonds' (1899) Selections from Essay on the Nature of Trade (1755) ‘Corn’ and ‘Men’ (1756) Selections from Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth (1766) Letter from Turgot to Hume (1767) Part IV: Classical Economists Introduction Selections from An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth Of Nations (1776) Selections from On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) Selections from The Principles of Political Economy (1825) Selections from A Treatise of Political Economy (1803) Selection from An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of Public Wealth (1804) Selection from A Critical Dissertation on Value (1825) Selection from An Outline of the Science of Political Economy (1836) Selections from Principles of Political Economy (1848)
