8500 - 560 BC
Economic principles of Judaism
520 BC - 1474
Aristotle theorises the principle of balanced trade and the three major functions of money
Economic principles of Christianity
Polyaenus' stratagems for financing war
Economic principles of Islam
First use of movable type made in Terra cotta
Fibonacci brings Arab numbers to Europe
Invention of metal movable type printing
Publication of the Treatise on money by Nicolas Oresme
First regulations on patents
1474 - 1740
Implementation of the mercantilist doctrine in several European countries
Economic principles of Protestantism
Controversy between Bodin and Malestroit in France
William Petty's Treatise of taxes and contributions
1740 - 1945
Publication, in the United Kingdom, of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Publication of An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus
Traité d'économie politique (Treatise on economic policy) by Jean-Baptiste Say
An experiment in corporate social responsibility: the Familistère
Publication of the first volume of Karl Marx's Capital
Publication of Lombard Street: a description of the money market by Walter Bagehot
Léon Walras publishes Éléments d'économie politique pure (Elements of pure economics)
Return to protectionism in Germany and France
Rerum novarum: the economic and social doctrine of the Catholic Church
Launch of the Ford Model T in the United States
The Wörgl Experiment in Tyrol, Austria: the first parallel currency
Keynes publishes the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Schumpeter's creative destruction
1945 to the present
Milton Friedman publishes his article on the quantitative theory of money
Beginning of global environmental movement
