《经济学说的回顾》一书,是一部经济思想史,但在某些方面,它和这一类的大部分著作有所不同。首先,作者不想涉及每一个经济学著作家。他选择了一些人(选得很明智),他集中写亚当·斯密、李嘉图、穆勒、马克思、杰文斯、马歇尔、威克斯蒂德、庞巴维克、威克塞尔、瓦尔拉和凯恩斯(他特别充分地谈到马克思)。虽然他常常提到的是一些主要的人物,但的确他提到了另外一些作者:重商主义者和重农主义者(都集中放在“亚当·斯密前经济学”的标题下),而且对于马尔萨斯、萨伊、古尔诺、杜普特、戈逊、屠能、桑登、西尼尔、凯厄纳斯、门格尔、维塞尔、 The book The Review of Economics says that it is a history of economic thought but in some ways it differs from most of the writings in this category. First, the author does not want to involve every economist. He chose (some very wisely) to focus on writing Adam Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marx, Jevons, Marshall, Wextide, Bombay Vic, Wexel, Val La and Keynes (he speaks especially fully of Marx). Although he is often cited as some of the main characters, but he did mention some other authors: mercantilists and physiocrats (focused on under the heading “Adam Smith’s former economics”), and For Malthus, Say, Gorny, Doherty, Gooson, Tuen Mun, Sangten, Senir, Keane Nass, Menger, Wieser,