The Science of Economics, as it is taught today, cannot be understood without studying its historical evolution. And this history, in turn, cannot be comprehended without taking into account the conditions that shaped economic beliefs at that time, including those strong influences that formed those conditions in favor of powerful economic interests.

Here are included the moral attitudes that survived from the domestic economy of the Greeks, from "biblical" thought. And from the feudal world of Thomas Aquinas, from the French philosophers of the pre-revolutionary period, who defended agriculture, and from the mercantilist capitalists in the nascent period of modern capitalism.

Here belongs Adam Smith, observing the early stages of the modern industrial era, and Marx, reacting to the oppression and alienation of 19th-century capitalism. This book also refers to Keynes, the Great Depression, and the modern welfare state.

"Economic in Perspective" is aimed at both the thoughtful layperson or student and the academic economist.