This book brings together John Creedy’s most important essays on the history of economic analysis. The book contributes to our understanding of the development of economics by looking at the subject and some of its major players including Pareto, Edgeworth, Marshall and Wicksell, from an historical perspective.

Contents: Preface 1. Pareto and the Distribution of Income 2. Edgeworth’s Contribution to the Theory of Exchange 3. Some Recent Interpretations of Mathematical Psychics 4. The Early Use of Lagrange Multipliers in Economics 5. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 6. F.Y. Edgeworth’s Mathematical Training 7. F.Y. Edgeworth: Utilitarianism and Arbitration 8. Public Finance 9. On the King-Davenant Law of Demand 10. Wicksell on Edgeworth’s Tax Paradox 11. Whewell’s ‘Translation’ of J.S. Mill 12. Marshall and Edgeworth 13. Marshall, Monopoly and Rectangular Hyperbolas 14. Commentary on English Speaking Pioneers in Value and Distribution Theory 15. Marshall and International Trade 16. Mangoldt and Inter-related Goods 17. Consumers’ Surplus and International Trade: Marshall’s Example 18. The Role of Stocks in Supply and Demand Analysis 19. Jevons’s Complex Cases in the Theory of Exchange 20. Cournot on Trade Between Regions and the Transition from Partial to General Equilibrium Modelling 21. Launhardt’s Model of Exchange 22. Exchange Equilibria: Bargaining, Utilitarian and Competitive Solutions 23. The Rise and Fall of Walras’s Demand and Supply Curves Index