Chapter 1: Introduction.Part I: The Republic and the Sovereign: Economists on Political Power.Chapter 2: The Dream to Tame the Leviathan: Authoritarian Power and the Market.Chapter 3: Sismondi's Political Economy: Translating Power into Sociability.Chapter 4: The Question of Democracy for the Italian Marginalists.Part II: The Asymmetries of Power: Income, Wealth and Social Control.Chapter 5: Elements of a Science of Power: Hobbes, Smith, and Ricardo.Chapter 6: Power and Poverty: Social Legislation in the years of Adam Smith.Chapter 7: Debates on Social Insurance in the French Liberal School.Part III: Market Power and Institutions in Theory and Policy.Chapter 8: Power Wars Between Institutions: Business Training in Higher Education.Chapter 9: The Early Oligopolistic Models: Market Power in the Paretian Tradition.Chapter 10: Dispersion of Power as an Economic Goal of Antitrust Policy.Part IV: Managing Power: Economists as Policy Makers.Chapter 11: Jean-Baptiste Say on Political Power.Chapter 12: Keynes and Eucken on Capitalism and Power.Chapter 13: Power and Economic Policies: The Case of Italy.