| Table of Content | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| A | Anticipations | 3 |
| Lecture 1 | Introduction - Plato | 5 |
| Lecture 2 | Plato and Aristotle | 16 |
| Lecture 3 | Aquinas and the Scholastics | 26 |
| Lecture 4 | Pamphleteers - Money (Oresme, Bodin, "W.S.") | 35 |
| Lecture 5 | Pamphleteers - Mercantilism (Malynes, Misselden, Mun) | 46 |
| Lecture 6 | Sir William Petty | 55 |
| Lecture 7 | Child and Locke (Interest) | 66 |
| B | Emergence of Systems | 75 |
| Lecture 8 | Cantillon | 77 |
| Lecture 9 | Cantillon (cont.) - Physiocracy | 86 |
| Lecture 10 | Physiocrats - Turgot | 95 |
| Lecture 11 | Locke and Hume on Property - Hume on Money | 104 |
| Lecture 12 | Hume on Interest and Trade - Precursors of Adam Smith | 114 |
| Lecture 13 | General Survey of Smith's Intentions - The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (I) | 125 |
| Lecture 14 | The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (II) | 133 |
| Lecture 15 | The Wealth of Nations: Analytical (III) - Policy (I) | 143 |
| Lecture 16 | The Wealth of Nations: Policy (II) | 153 |
| C | Nineteenth-Century Classicism | 165 |
| Lecture 17 | General Review - Malthus on Population | 167 |
| Lecture 18 | Value and Distribution: Historical Origin - Analytical (I) | 176 |
| Lecture 19 | Value and Distribution: Analytical (II) | 185 |
| Lecture 20 | Value and Distribution: Analytical (III) | 192 |
| Lecture 21 | Overall Equilibrium | 201 |
| Lecture 22 | International Trade | 210 |
| Lecture 23 | John Stuart Mill | 219 |
| D | Other Mid-Nineteenth-Century Thought | 229 |
| Lecture 24 | Mill (cont.) - Saint-Simon and Marx | 231 |
| Lecture 25 | Marx (cont.) - List and the Historical School | 238 |
| E | Beginnings of Modern Analysis | 247 |
| Lecture 26 | The Historical School (cont.) - Precursors of Change: Cournot, von Thunen, and Rae | 249 |
| Lecture 27 | The Marginal Revolution (I): Jevons | 258 |
| Lecture 28 | The Marginal Revolution (II): Jevons and Menger | 268 |
| Lecture 29 | The Marginal Revolution (III): Costs (Wieser) - The Pricing of Factor Services (Wieser, Clark, Wicksteed) | 277 |
| Lecture 30 | Capital Theory: Bohm-Bawerk and Fisher | 285 |
| Lecture 31 | Walras - Pareto | 295 |
| Lecture 32 | Marshall | 303 |
| Lecture 33 | Money: Fisher, Marshall, Wicksell | 312 |
| App. A | Robbins' Reading List | 321 |
| App. B | Robbins' Writings in the History of Economic Thought | 331 |