The History of Economics, the second volume of Takashi Negishi’s collected essays, contains essays on the history of economics published over a period of 10 years. Some of these essays have made seminal contributions and have been widely cited while others were published in journals and festschrifts which are no longer easily available.

Part 1 Classical and Marxian economics: expenditure patterns and international trade in Quesney's tableau economique; the role of demand in Adam Smith's theory of natural price; the labour theory of value in the Ricardian theory of international trade; Ricardo and Morishima on machinery; comments on Ekelund "Mill's Recantation of the Wages Fund"; Thornton's criticism of equilibrium theory and mill; on equilibrium and disequilibrium - a reply to Ekelund and Thommesen; F.D. Longe and refutation of classical theory of capital; Marx and Bohm-Bawerk in the theory of interest; Marx and Bohm-Bawerk; Samuelson, Saigal and Emmanuel's theory of international unequal exchange. Part 2 Marginal revolution and after: studies of von Thunen in Japan; a note on Jevons's law of indifference and competitive equilibrium; competition and the number of participants - lessons of Edgeworth's theorem; Bertrand's duopoly considered as an Edgeworth's game of exchange; non-Walrasian foundations of macroeconomics; Wicksell's missing equation - a comment; Wicksell's missing equation and Bohm-Bawerks three causes of interest in a stationary state; economic structure and the theory of economic equilibrium; on the non-existence of equilibrium; comment, minisymposium, the history of economics and the history of science.