"The Wealth of Ideas traces the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day. In this eloquently written, scientifically rigorous and well documented book, chapterson William Petty, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, William Stanley Jevons, Carl Menger, Le;on Walras, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Piero Sraffa, alternate with chapters on other important figures and on debates of the period. Economic thought is seen as developing between two opposite poles: a subjective one, based on the ideas ofscarcity and utility, and an objective one based on the notions of physical costs and surplus. Professor Roncaglia focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time and critically evaluates the foundations of the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach."
"Alessandro Roncaglia illustrates the history of economic thought, from its prehistory (the Bible, Classical antiquity) to the present day."
"Illustrates the history of economic thought from antiquity to the present day. Eloquently written and scientifically rigorous, this well documented book focuses on the different views of the economy and society and on their evolution over time. Critically evaluates the scarcity-utility approach in comparison with the Classical/Keynesian approach."@en

The wealth of ideas a history of economic thought