The History and Future of Economics

1. From pre-history to the Crusades -- 2. From the Crusades to the Renaissance -- 3. The Protestant work ethic and the rise of capitalism as Gods work -- 4. The Enlightenment: From Leonardo to Galileo -- 5. The rise of the East India Trading Companies -- 6. The “glorious revolution” and the BoE -- 7. Laissez-Faire and John Law’s premature invention of “futures” -- 8. Classical economics as moral philosophy -- 9. Bentham and utilitarianism -- 10. The rise of physics: from Newton to Einstein -- 11. Energetics -- 12. Evolutionary theory and genetics -- 13. Entropy, exergy, information and complexity -- 14. The “marginal revolution” in Economics -- 15. Socialism and the Welfare State -- 16. Keynes v. Hayek and the monetarists -- 17. The future of economics and the economics of the future.