A Science in Its Youth

This book traces the link of major modern trends and ideas in political economy to economic doctrines 'of the past. With high scholarship warmed by humor, the reader is introduced to a host of earlier economic thinkers-Boisguillebert, Petty, Quesnay, Turgot, Smith, Ricardo, Saint-Simon, Fourier, Owen, and many others. Their ideas are revealed against the background of the age in which they. lived and wrote. The author, a professor ·at Moscow University, is an eminent Soviet economist.