A handy review of modern economic thought from Adam Smith, particularly useful in placing post-Keynesian thought in context. The most interesting chapters regard David Ricardo (comparative advantage and rent), Alfred Marshall (marginalism), and monetarism (including the recently passed Milton Friedman, which asserts that government’s best lever is the supply of capital in circulation). The public choice and rational expectations schools are presented as devoid of greater moral purpose. A bit too droll, but otherwise an excellent primer.