Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-206) and index.

Before "the economy" -- Related themes in the natural sciences -- French economics in the enlightenment -- Hume's political economy -- Smith's debts to nature -- Classical political economy in its heyday -- Mill and the early neoclassical economists -- Denaturalizing the economic order.

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