BOOK PROJECT: History of Economic Thought

One project I might spend a solid month on this fall is to try turn my history of economic thought lecture notes into a ms. for a relevant "history of economic thought" book—that is, a book that starts with (a) the need, if we are to be prosperous, to both have and coördinate a societal division of labor at scale, (b) the value of the market system as a way of achieving that coördination, and (c ) all the things that go wrong made interesting and relevant by placing individual prominent thinkers who analyzed them, sequentially, the centers of our attentionAt the moment, I am up to sixteen who must be covered if you have a sense of where markets work and where they do not.