20 of the Most Important Books for Economics before 1940

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New York Public Library, 20 Books

20 of the Most Important Books for Economics before 1940
By John Balow, Curator for Business, History and Social Science, Collections Strategy

This list was originally published in 2014 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1190 The Politics Aristotle -350 Greek Ancient greek
14666 Corpus Juris Canonici Unknown 1140 Multiple Latin
15626 Summa De Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni & Proportionalita Luca Pacioli 1494 Italian Latin
15642 England's Treasure By Forraign Trade Thomas Mun 1664 English English
15673 Verbum Sapienti William Petty 1665 British Latin
15707 The Fable Of The Bees Bernard Mandeville 1714 British English
15745 Political Discourses David Hume 1752 British English
531 The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1776 Scottish English
1476 An Essay on the Principle of Population Thomas Robert Malthus 1798 British English
16456 On The Principles Of Political Economy And Taxation David Ricardo 1817 British English
11612 Principles Of Political Economy John Stuart Mill 1848 British English
326 Das Kapital Karl Marx 1867 German German
16608 Theory Of Political Economy W. Stanley Jevons 1871 British English
16646 Elements Of Pure Economics, Or, The Theory Of Social Wealth Léon Walras 1874 French French
16718 Principles Of Economics Alfred Marshall 1890 British English
16762 Theory Of Business Enterprise Thorstein Veblen 1904 American English
14797 The Theory of Economic Development Joseph A. Schumpeter 1911 Austrian German
16874 Business Cycles Wesley Clair Mitchell 1913 American English
319 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes 1936 British English
16969 Value And Capital John Hicks 1939 British English