Contents

Preface

Introduction: What Is Economics?

Part I— Economics in History

1.Social Orders and Economic Relations

2.How Societies Produce

3.Capitalist Social Orders

Part II— Capitalist Economic Relations

4.Money

5.Commodities

6.Profit

Part III— Capitalist Economic Forces

7.Entrepreneurs and Investment

8.Bankers and Interest

9.The Rules of Capitalism

Sources and Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Glossary of Terms (by Benjamin Taylor)