CHAPTER 1: Intro

• The Worldly Philosophers
• economists shape & sway man's mind, a power greater than the sword or the sceptre
• the philosophy concerning man's most worldly activities- his drive for wealth
• search for order & meaning of social history
  
• an odd group of men- economists covered in this book
• a philosopher- Adam Smith
• a parson- Thomas R. Malthus
• a stockbroker- David Ricardo
• a nobleman- Saint Simon
• a madman- Charles Fourier
• a revolutionary- Karl Marx
• an asthete- John Maynard Keynes
• a tramp- Henry George
• a skeptic- Thorstein Veblen
• An odd fact: economic problems arose long before time of Pharaohs, in time history produced philosophers, scientists, artists, political thinkers, but why no economists until the 18th century (Adam Smith)?
• Explained in CHAPTER 2: The Economic Revolution - why economists were not only unnecessary, but impossible in earlier times before the modern age