The mystery of wealth
John Hutton

Political economy, its development and impact on world events.

The book includes brief lives of more than fifty significant thinkers including Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes, and a chronology of events between 1750 and 1977. The purpose, is to enable the reader to perceive the main developments of the ‘industrial age’ against the lives and pre-occupations of the leading intellects of the same period. He concludes with a discussion about possible ‘ convergency’ between the various doctrines and systems reviewed, and looks at ideas about the future prospects for the world economy during this, the last quarter of the twentieth century.