An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

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Cover from the first volume of the 2006 Mises Institute edition of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought is two-volume work written by Murray N. Rothbard. Rothbard said he originally intended to write a "standard Adam Smith-to-the-present moderately sized book"; but expanded the scope of the project to include economists who preceded Smith and to comprise a multi-volume series. Rothbard completed only the first two volumes, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith and Classical Economics.

Release history

• An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought. Ludwig von Mises Institute. Auburn, Alabama. 2006. ISBN 0-945466-48-X (2 Volume Hardback totaling 1,084 pages). OCLC 64574138
• An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought. Edward Elgar Publishing. 1995. ISBN 1-85278-962-X. OCLC 30156724

Further reading

• Murray Rothbard on "Why I Wrote My Histories of Thought"
• A favorable review of An Austrian Perspective

External links

• "It All Began, As Usual, With The Greeks" (Volume One, Chapter 1 )
• "The Celebrated Adam Smith" (Chapter 16)
• PDF and ePub downloads of the book from Mises.org
• Volume 3: audio file and Transcript (from Stephan Kinsella)