Penn State University Libraries - Classic Works in Economics

Ashton, Thomas Southcliffe (1889-1968)

• An Economic History of England. The 18th Century
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC254.5.A73

• The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC255.A8

• Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD9521.5.A7

• Pressnell, L.S.. Studies in the Industrial Revolution : presented to T.S. Ashton
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC253.P7 1960

Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877)

• Lombard Street : a Description of the Money Market
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG3000.L82B3

• The Postulates of English Political Economy
  UP-Annex: 330.942B146p

Bloch, Marc Léopold Benjamin (1886-1994)

• Esquisse d'une Histoire Monétaire de l'Europe
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG922.B4 1954

• Fink, Carole. Marc Bloch : a Life in History
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: D15.B596F56 1989

• French Rural History : an Essay on its Basic Characteristics
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD643.B613

• Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe : Selected Papers
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: D119.B613 1967a

• M.M. Postan and H.J. Habakkuk, editors. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC240.C312
  See Block, Marc. "The Rise of Dependent Cultivation and Seignorial Institutions." vol. 1, chap. 6, pp. 224-277

Braudel, Fernand (1902-1985)

• Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC51.B67413 1981

Chandler, Alfred D. (b. 1918)

• The Essential Alfred Chandler : Essays Toward a Historical Theory of Big Business, edited and with an introduction by Thomas K. McCraw
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD2785.C4732 1988

• Scale and Scope : the Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD2785.C474 1990

• Strategy and Structure : Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD70.U5C5

• The Visible Hand : the Managerial Revolution in American Business
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF5343.C584
  The Visible Hand online via the History E-book Project

Fogel, Robert W. (b. 1926)

• Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700 : Some Preliminary Findings
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB1322.A3F63 1984

• Railroads and American Economic Growth : Essays in Econometric History
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HE2751.F65

• Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History : a Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel, edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD5724.S734 1992

• Time on the Cross : the Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level 1: E449.F65

• The Union Pacific Railroad : a Case in Premature Enterprise
  call number: HE2791.U55F6
  available at Penn State Campus and College Libraries. Use the I Want It button in the CAT record to request

• Without Consent or Contract : the Rise and Fall of American Slavery
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level 1: E441.F63 1989

• Without Consent or Contract : the Rise and Fall of American Slavery : Evidence and Methods
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level 1: E441.F63 1992

Friedman, Milton (1912-2006)

• Capitalism and Freedom (with the assistance of Rose D. Friedman)
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB501.F 7

• Essays in Positive Economics
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB33.F 7
  See "The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates," pp. 157-203

• A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG538.F86

• A Program for Monetary Stability
  call number: HG538.F87 1992
  available at Penn State Campus and College Libraries. Use the I Want It button in the CAT record to request

• A Theory of the Consumption Function
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB801.F 7

Gerschenkron, Alexander (1904-1978)

• Continuity in History, and Other Essays
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC240.G465

• Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective : a Book of Essays
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC335.G386

• The Fly Swatter : How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World, Nicholas Dawidoff
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB119.G47D39 2002
  A biographical memoir of Gerschenkron's life and influence.

• If You're so Smart : the Narrative of Economic Expertise, Donald N. McCloskey
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB199.M385 1990
  Chapter 5 uses Gerschenkron as an exemplar of persuasion through economic storytelling.

• Rosovsky, Henry. Industrialization in Two Systems : Essays in Honor of Alexander Gerschenkron by a Group of His Students
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC59.R638

Heckscher, Eli F. (1879-1952)

• The Continental System : an Economic Interpretation
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF1543.H43 1922

• Economic Essays in Honour of Gustav Cassel, October 20th, 1930
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB31.E32 1933
  See Heckscher, E.F. "The Aspects of Economic History," pp. 705-720.

• An Economic History of Sweden
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC373.H413

• Enterprise and Secular Change : Readings in Economic History
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB75.L33 1953
  See "A Plea for Theory in Economic History," pp. 421-430.

• Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Theory
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF1379.H43 1991

• Mercantilism
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC373.H413 1935
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB91.H42 1955 (significantly revised 2nd edition)

• The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB1.Q3
  Quarterly Journal of Economics online via JSTOR
  See "Quantitative Measurements in Economic History," v.53 (1939), pp. 167-193.

Hughes, Jonathan (1928-1992)

• Fluctuations in Trade, Industry, and Finance : a Study of British Economic Development, 1850-1860
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC255.H86 1960

• The Governmental Habit : Economic Controls from Colonial Times to the Present
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC103.H76

• Industrialization and Economic History : Theses and Conjectures
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC51.H8

• Social Control in the Colonial Economy
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC104.H83

• The Vital Few : the Entrepreneur and American Economic Progress
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC102.5.A2H8 1986

• The Vital One : Essays in Honor of Jonathan R.T. Hughes, editor, Joel Mokyr.
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC51.V57 1991

Keynes, John Maynard (1883-1946)

• The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB171.K44

• The Economic Consequences of the Peace
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC57.K4 1920

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB171.K45

• How to Pay for the War : a Radical Plan for the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  2nd Floor Paterno Library: HJ1023.K45 1940

• Indian Currency and Finance
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG1234.K4 1913

• A Treatise on Money
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG221.K45

• A Treatise on Probability
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: BC141.K4

Kindleberger, Charles Poor (1910-2003 )

• Comparative Political Economy : a Retrospective
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG101.K56 2000
  Comparative Political Economy online via EBSCOHost eBook Collection

• Economic growth in France and Britain, 1851-1950
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC276.K55 1964

• Essays in History : Financial, Economic, Personal
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG3881.K489 1999

• Manias, Panics, and Crashes : a History of Financial Crises
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB3722.K56

• The World in Depression, 1929-1939
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB3717 1929.K55

Lane, Frederic Chapin (1900-1984)

• Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG1040.V46L36
  Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice online via the History E-book Project

• Profits from Power : Readings in Protection Rent and Violence-controlling Enterprises
  3rd Floor Paterno: HC12.L35

• Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: VM80.V4L3

• Venice, a Maritime Republic
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: DG676.L28
  Venice, a Maritime Republic online via the History E-book Project

• Venice and History : the Collected Papers of Frederic C. Lane, edited by a committee of colleagues and former students. Foreword by Fernand Braudel.
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF3589.V4L35

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (b. 1929)

• Montaillou, the Promised Land of Error, translated by Barbara Bray
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: DC801.M753L4713

• Les Paysans de Languedoc
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD649.L33L4 1969

• The Peasants of Languedoc, translated with an introduction by John Day
  call number: HD649.L33L413
  available at Penn State Campus and College Libraries. Use the I Want It button in the CAT record to request

• Le Territoire de l'historien
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: DC36.9.L37

• The Territory of the Historian, translated Ben and Siân Reynolds
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: DC36.9.L3713

• Times of Feast, Times of Famine : a History of Climate Since the Year 1000, translated by Barbara Bray
  call number: QC989.A1L5413 1988
  available at Penn State Campus and College Libraries. Use the I Want It button in the CAT record to request

Lewis, W. Arthur (1915-1991)

• "Development Economics in the 1950s," in Pioneers in Development, edited by Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD74.P56 1984

• The Manchester School
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB1.M3
  See "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour," v.22 (May 1954) pp. 139-191.

• Economic Survey, 1919-1939
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC57.L48 1949

• Growth and fluctuations, 1870-1913
  UP-Annex: HC53.L43

• Selected Economic Writings of W. Arthur Lewis
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD82.L4154 1983

• The Theory and Experience of Economic Development : Essays in Honor of Sir W. Arthur Lewis
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD82.T47 1982

Malthus, Thomas (1766-1834)

• An Essay on the Principle of Population
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB861.E7

• Principles of Political Economy
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB161.M25

Marshall, Alfred (1842-1924)

• The Correspondence of Alfred Marshall, Economist
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB103.M3A4 1996

• The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867-1890
  3rd Floor Paterno Lirary: HB171.M334 1975

• The Economics of Industry
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC253.P7 1890

• Elements of Economics of Industry
  call number: HB171.M35
  available at Penn State Campus and College Libraries. Use the I Want It button in the CAT record to request

• Industry and Trade : a Study of Industrial Technique and Business Organization; and of Their Influences on the Conditions of Various Classes and Nations
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD2326.M3 1920

• Money, Credit and Commerce
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG230.M3 1923

• Official Papers
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC255.M387

• Principles of Economics
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB171.M355

• Principles of the Economics : an Introductory Volume
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB171.M37

Marx, Karl (1818-1893)

• Capital : a Critique of Political Economy
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB501.M356 1906
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB501.M3561 1936
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB501.M3613 1981

Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)

• Mill : Texts, Commentaries, selected and edited by Alan Ryan
  2nd Floor Paterno Library: JC585.M7425 1997

• On Liberty
  2nd Floor Paterno Library: JC585.M76

• Principles of Political Economy
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB161.M6

Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990)

• The Myth of the Machine
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: CB478.M78

• Technics and Civilization
  Technics and Civilization online via the History E-book Project
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: CB478.M8
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: T15.M8

North, Douglass Cecil (b. 1920)

• The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC105.N6

• Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB99.5.N67

• Structure and Change in Economic History
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC21.N66 1981

Pirenne, Henri (1862-1935)

• Belgian Democracy : Its Early History
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: DH566.P5

• Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
  call number: HC41.P5 1956
  available at Penn State Campus and College Libraries. Use the I Want It button in the CAT record to request

• Mahomet et Charlemagne [original French]
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: D121.P5

• Medieval Cities : Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
  2nd Floor Paterno Library: JS61.P5
  Architecture Library: JS61.P66

• Mohammed and Charlemagne [English translation]
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: D121.P52
  Mohammed and Charlemagne online via the History E-book Project

Polanyi, Karl (1886-1964)

• The Great Transformation : The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC53.P6
  UP-Annex: 330.9P75g 1944

Postan, Michael M. (1898-1981)

• Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC41.P67

• Fact and Relevance : Essays on Historical Method
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: H61.P59

Power, Eileen Edna (1889-1940)

• Medieval People
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: D127.P6

• Studies in English Trade in the Fifteenth Century, edited by Eileen Power and M.M. Postan
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF3505.1.P6

• The Wool Trade in English Medieval History : Being the Ford Lectures
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD9901.5.P6 1941

Ricardo, David (1772-1823)

• Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB161.R485

• Works and Correspondence, edited by Piero Sraffa, with the collaboration of M.H. Dobb
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB161.R4812

Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915-2009)

• Foundations of Economic Analysis
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB171.S26

• The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB33.S2

• Economics [classic textbook]
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB171.5.S25 [various editions]

• Linear Programming and Economic Analysis, Robert Dorfman, Paul Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB71.D6

• Inside the Economist's Mind: Conversations with Eminent Economists, Paul Samuelson and William A. Barnett
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB76.I57 2007

Schumpeter, Joseph Alois (1883-1950)

• Business Cycles : a Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB3711.S39

• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
  2nd Floor Paterno Library: HX86.S33

• History of Economic Analysis
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB75.S456
  UP-Annex: HB75.S456

• The Theory of Economic Development : an Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB175.S462

Senior, Nassau William (1790-1864)

• An Outline of the Science of Political Economy
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB161.S46 1965

• Selected Writings on Economics
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB103.A2S4
  Senior wrote one of the first criticisms of Thomas Malthus' population theory. See "Two lectures on population, with a correspondence between the author and T.R. Malthus. 1829"

Sombart, Werner (1863-1941)

• Der Moderne Kapitalismus : Historisch-systematische Darstellung des Gesamteuropäischen Withschaftslebens
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB501.S7 1922

• The Quintessence of Capitalism : a Study of the History and Psychology of the Modern Business Man
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB501.S673

Smith, Adam (1723-1790)

• Blaug, Mark. Economic Theory in Retrospect
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB75.B664

• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB161.S65

• The Theory of Moral Sentiments
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: BJ1005.S6

• Wealth of Nations
  Wealth of Nations online via EBSCOHost eBook Collection

Tawney, Richard Henry (1880-1962)

• The Acquisitive Society
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB199.T35

• The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD594.T3

• Business and Politics under James I : Lionel Cranfield as Merchant and Minister
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level 2: 92M5838t

• The Economic History Review
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC10.E4
  The Economic History Review online via JSTOR
  See "The Rise of the Gentry," v.11 (1941), 1-38.

• Land and Labour in China
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC427.T28 1932

• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism : a Historical Study
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: BR115.E3T3

• Tudor Economic Documents : Being Select Documents Illustrating the Economic and Social History of Tudor England, edited by R.H. Tawney and Eileen Power
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC251.T3 1924

Usher, Abbott Payson (1883-1965)

• The Early History of Deposit Banking in Mediterranean Europe
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HG2974.U7 1943

• An Economic History of Europe Since 1750
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC240.B65

• The History of the Grain Trade in France, 1400-1710
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD9042.5.U8 1913

• The Industrial History of England
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC253.U8

Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929)

• Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HC106.V4

• The Higher Learning in America : a Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen
  5th Floor Paterno Library: LA226.V3 1957a

• Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: DD67.V4 1939

• The Instinct of Workmanship, and the State of the Industrial Arts
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: T14.V4

• The Theory of Business Enterprise
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF5351.V38

• The Theory of the Leisure Class
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB831.V4
  The Theory of the Leisure Class online via EBSCOHost eBook Collection

Walras, Léon (1834-1910)

• Elements of Pure Economics : or, The Theory of Social Wealth, translated by William Jaffé
  3rd Floor Paterno Library: HB173.W2213

Weber, Max (1864-1920)

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
  Pattee Library Stacks, Level BA: BR115.E3W4