For History of Thought I have been using Backhouse, The Ordinary Business of Life. I'm not 100% satisfied with it because it is rather dry. But it does go back to the Greeks, covers people like Steuart and Cantillon, doesn't try to claim Smith as the founder of economics, and does include an economic history dimension of sorts. Do you, or another else, have a better suggestion?
Paul ----------- No. I didn't realize such a course title was specific to the history of economic thought. I read the JSOR first page review of the Backhouse and this as another review: ``The historical coverage by chapter reflects the design strategy. The sequence is as follows, after a Prologue: The Ancient World, The Middle Ages, The Emergence of the Modern World View -- the Sixteenth Century; Science, Politics and Trade in Seventeenth-Century England; Absolutism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France; and The Scottish Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century. Through chapter 6 on the Scottish Enlightenment (including Adam Smith), the emphasis is clearly on political, social, and broad intellectual developments. Thereafter, the focus is on the development of economic theory, almost as if the foregoing types of development were suspended, though the message may instead be that modern economics is an emanation of the modern (Western) economy and not the pure, a-institutional science its practitioners tend to claim: Classical Political Economy, 1790-1870; The Split between History and Theory in Europe, 1879-1914; The Rise of American Economics, 1870-1939; Money and the Business Cycle, 1898-1939; Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, 1930 to the Present; Welfare Economics and Socialism, 1870 to the Present; Economists and Policy, 1939 to the Present; and Expanding the Discipline, 1960 to the Present; concluding with an unnumbered epilogue, `Economists and Their History.' '' http://eh.net/book_reviews/ordinary-business-life-history-economics-ancient-world-twenty-first-century In my mind the title History of Thought implied the history of ideas in a much larger sense of a western intellectual history. Oh well. It really should be qualified as the History of Economic Thought. No more than I typed that sentence when Julio Huato complained the New School website on The History of Economic Thought seemed to be down... It is up as a mirror(?) or archive and there is a long list of works by Marx as Michael Nuwer posted. http://web.archive.org/web/20100302181941id_/http://homepage.newschool.edu/~het/ It doesn't list Capital directly, but refers to the Marx and Engles Internet Archive. If you look around there, you can find the Penguin translation of Capital vol 1 with a table of contents where each is a pdf. Looking up Hayek's Road to Serfdom well there are abridged versions--not that I mind that much. A lot of the links I click in other parts of the index are broken so the website needs work and claims to be under construction. Does Backhouse cover Marx?
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