Great Economists: Classical Economics and Its Forerunners (Marginal Revolution University)

Free online course from Marginal Revolution University, taught by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, on the history of economic thought up to the Marginal Revolution of the 1870s. It covers thinkers before Adam Smith such as Cantillon, Quesnay and Hume, a video for each chapter of The Wealth of Nations, later classical economists including Malthus, Ricardo, Bastiat and John Stuart Mill, and a section on Friedrich Hayek.

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