Re-issuing 15 seminal volumes in the history of economics, originally published between 1906 and 1983, but which still have enduring validity, the volumes in this set, by Edwin Cannan, Michal Kalecki, Simon Kuznets, Erik Lindahl, A. C. Pigou, Joan Robinson, Friedrich List, Knut Wicksell, Tibor Scitovsky and Jacob Viner discuss and examine:

• general problems of economics and in particular the theories of production, value, distribution, employment, interest, money, currency, credit and international trade
• key principles of economics in historical terms
• Swedish monetary theory
• major variables significant for the analysis of economic development
• business cycles
• origins of social organizations, the development of Robinson Crusoe economies and the conception of property or rightful ownership.