This book provides original and, it is argued, often symbiotic treatments of mainstream figures such as Bentham, Malthus, Edgeworth, Walras, Pigou and Marshall and of "neglected" figures such as John Tozer and Alfred Russel Wallace.

Preface Introduction 1. Generations of Economists and the Economics of Generations Part One: Pigou and Cambridge 2. Pigou’s Place in the History of Economics 3. Pigou and Modern Business Cycle Theory 4. Pigou on Expectations and the Cycle 5. Cambridge After Marshall 6. The Cambridge Economics Tripos 1957-60: A Memoir. Part Two: Classical Utilitarianism and Welfare 7. Utility and Utilitarianism: Ancient and Modern 8. Research on Well-Being: Some Advice from Jeremy Bentham 9. Malthus, Population and the Generational Bargain Part Three: General Equilibrium 10. General Equilibrium: The Founding Fathers 11. Leon Walras and the Cambridge Caricature 12. Walras, Patinkin and the Money Tatonnement (1966) 13. Edgeworth’s Propositions on Altruism (1975) 14. The Production of Commodities (1963) 15. High Hicks, Deep Hicks and Equilibrium (1993) Part Four: Neglect 16. Neglect: A Note 17. Tozer: A Mathematical Investigation (1968) 18. Alfred Russel Wallace and the Political Economists (2009) Part Five: Inter-generational Economists 19. Pigon and Future Generations: A Cambridge Tradition (1996) 20. Ramsey, Saving and the Generations 21. Co-operation between Overlapping Generations