Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One: A Proposed Taxonomy of Thought About Macroeconomic Instability; Chapter Two: Optimism and Oblivion in the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter Three: Twentieth Century Theories of Macroeconomic Instability; Chapter Four: The Birth of the Business Cycle, Part I; Chapter Five: From the Economics of Ceremonial Adequacy to the Economics of Cumulative Change; Chapter Six: An Institutionalist Theory of the Business Cycle
Chapter Seven: The Birth of the Business Cycle, Part IIChapter Eight: The Rate of Profit in the Eighteenth Centur; Chapter Nine: A Chronology of Eighteenth Century British Instability
Summary
Discussing economic theory and English economic history from the eighteenth century until the late 1970s this volume discusses among other things fixed capital and problems with the definition of the premodern economy as well as providing a chronology of 18th century business cycles
