Towards Economic Freedom (1937) presents the fundamentals of economics in their historical perspective, and reduces economic theory to its simplest terms. The common human need for food, clothing and shelter is evident to all, and the business of production and distribution should be available for study to all.
Part
1. The Era of Physical Energy and Human Labour
1. Egypt, Sumer,
Babylon: Corn and Gold
2. In Asiatic Lands, Judaea, India and China
3. In
Greece; Freemen and Slaves
4. Rome: the Worlds Market
5. From the Dark Ages:
Feudalism
6. Six Centuries of Agriculture
7. Six Centuries of Manufacture
8.
A
Chapter on Coinage and Taxation
9. Six Centuries of European Trade
10. The
Artist in the Economic World
11. Money and Banking Before AD 1700
12.
Production, Distribution and War Part
2. The Era of Solar Energy and Machine
Labour
13. Fifty Significant Years (17501800)
14. The Industrial Revolution
15. Some Economic Theories and Theorists
16. Money in the Nineteenth Century
17. The Britain of Laisser-faire
18. The Coming of Electric Power
19. The
Race for Foreign Markets
20. The Economic Side of the World War
21. The
Post-War Years
22. Rationalisation
23. Boom, Slump, and the Trade Cycle
24.
The Approach to the Age of Leisure
