Power in Economic Thought

Chapter 1: Introduction. Part I: The Republic and the Sovereign: Economists on Political Power. Chapter 2: The Dream to Tame the Leviathan: Authoritarian Power and the Market. Chapter 3: Sismondi's Political Economy: Translating Power into Sociability. Chapter 4: The Question of Democracy for the Italian Marginalists. Part II: The Asymmetries of Power: Income, Wealth and Social Control. Chapter 5: Elements of a Science of Power: Hobbes, Smith, and Ricardo. Chapter 6: Power and Poverty: Social Legislation in the years of Adam Smith. Chapter 7: Debates on Social Insurance in the French Liberal School. Part III: Market Power and Institutions in Theory and Policy. Chapter 8: Power Wars Between Institutions: Business Training in Higher Education. Chapter 9: The Early Oligopolistic Models: Market Power in the Paretian Tradition. Chapter 10: Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust Policy. Part IV: Managing Power: Economists as Policy Makers. Chapter 11: Jean-Baptiste Say on Political Power. Chapter 12: Keynes and Eucken on Capitalism and Power. Chapter 13: Power and Economic Policies: The Case of Italy.