This post is a basic timeline of economics. There are 25 events listed below chronologically.
- 1755: Richard Cantillon publishes Essay on the Nature of Trade in General
- 1758: Francois Quesnay publishes Tableau Économique
- 1767: James Steuart publishes An Enquiry in the Principles of Political Economy
- 1776: Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations
- 1798: Thomas Robert Malthus publishes An Essay on the Principle of Population
- 1817: David Ricardo publishes On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- 1847: Leon Walras publishes Elements of Pure Economics
- 1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
- 1848: John Stuart Mill publishes Principles of Political Economy
- 1862: William Stanley Jevons publishes A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy
- 1871: Carl Menger publishes Principles of Economics
- 1879: Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty
- 1890: Alfred Marshall publishes Principles of Economics
- 1911: Joseph Schumpeter publishes Theory of Economic Development
- 1934: Simon Kuznets publishes national income accounts for the United States
- 1936: John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- 1944: Friedrich Hayek publishes Road to Serfdom
- 1948: Paul Samuelson publishes Economics: An Introductory Analysis
- 1956: Robert Solow publishes A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth
- 1958: John Kenneth Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society
- 1960: Piero Sraffa publishes Productions of Commodities by Means of Commodities
- 1962: Milton Friedman publishes Capitalism and Freedom
- 1963: Kenneth Arrow publishes Uncertainty and the Welfare Economcis of Medical Care
- 1972: Robert Lucas Jr. publishes Expectations and the Neutrality of Money
- 1990: Paul Romer publishes Endogenous Technological Change
