Here are the essays from the history of political economy that we will be reading through the term. Most of them can be accessed from this site directly as PDFs. Others can be read in electronic versions via the links provided below.

Tuesday, January 12: Defoe, “Essay on Public Credit” (published 1712)

Tuesday, January 26: Horner, “Thornton on Paper Credit” from Edinburgh Review (1802)

Tuesday, February 9: Ruskin, “Coin Keeping” from Munera Pulveris (published 1872)

Thursday, March 3: Keynes, “Social Consequences of Changes in the Value of Money” from Essays in Persuasion (first published in 1923)

Thursday, March 10: Friedman, “Mystery of Money” from Money Mischief (published in 1992)

Thursday, March 24: Lanchester, “Outsmarted” in the New Yorker (2009)