The Intellectual Foundations of Political Economy

17th & 18th Century Foundations

Josiah Child

• Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money

John Locke

• Second Treatise of Government
• Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money
• Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money

Thomas Mun of Lond

• England's Treasure by Foreign Trade. or The Balance of our Foreign Trade is The Rule of our Treasure

J. J. Rousseau

• A Dissertation On the Origin and Foundation of The Inequality of Mankind and is it Authorised by Natural Law?

Jean Baptiste Say

• Letters to Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce

Adam Smith

• Wealth of Nations: Book 1
• Wealth of Nations: Book 3
• Wealth of Nations: Book 4
• Wealth of Nations: Book 5

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

• Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth