Intro
Acknowledgements
Introductory Note
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Liberty, Human Nature, Individualism, and Property Rights
The Importance of Definitions
Liberty
Human Nature
Individualism
Property Rights
2: The Machiavellians
Machiavelli's Liberty
Machiavelli's Legacy
3: Hobbes and Locke on Human Nature
Locke on Property Rights
Hobbes and Locke on Human Nature
Locke on Property Rights
4: The Enlightenment
Richard Cantillon and the Birth of Modern Economics

A.R.J. Turgot on Subjective Value, Diminishing Returns, and Capital and Interest Theory
Splitting Hairs Between Hume and Locke on Justice and Property Rights
Adam Smith and the Division of Labour
5: The Nineteenth Century
The Repeal of the Corn Laws
Herbert Spencer
Jean-Baptiste Say and the Law of Markets
6: The Austrian School
Carl Menger
Eugen Böhm-Bawerk
Ludwig von Mises
F.A. Hayek
Murray N. Rothbard
7: The London School
William Stanley Jevons
Edwin Cannan
Philip Wicksteed
Lionel Robbins
W.H. Hutt

8: What Went Wrong and What Is to Be Done?
Positivism, Scientism, and Mathematical Modelling
Monetary Policy and Central Banking
Decoupling Economic Liberalism from Social and Political Liberalism
Selfishness, Atomisation, and Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself
Controlling the Frame and Winning the Language Game
Bibliography
Index