The making of modern economics : the lives and ideas of the great thinkers / Mark Skousen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

It all started with Adam -- The French connection: laissez faire avance! -- The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- Milling around: John Stuart Mill and the Socialists search for Utopia -- Marx madness plunges economics in to a New Dark Age -- Marshalling the troops: Scientific economics comes of age -- Go West, young man: Americans solve the distribution problem in economics -- The conspicuous Veblen versus the protesting Weber: Two critics debate the meaning of Capitalism -- The Fisher King tries to catch the missing link in macroeconomics -- The missing mises: Meses (and Wicksell) make a major breakthrough -- The Keynes mutiny: Capitalism faces the greatest challenge -- Paul raises the Keynesian cross: Samuelson and modern economics -- Milton's Paradise: Friedman leads a monetary counterrevolution -- The creative destruction of Socialism: The dark vision of Joseph Schumpeter -- Dr. Smith goes to Washington: The near triumph of market economics.