This course aims to provide economics students with an introduction to the fundamental constituents of economics from a historical perspective. The course has its focus on a particular topic for each week and explores it through an overview of its historical development and a discussion of the theories and debates that have characterized its study and evolution down to the present time. The course pays particular attention to the specificities of time and space in treating each topic and encourages students to develop awareness that they are all historically constructed and the study of each is in fact a practical exercise in understanding human beings and the world. The primary objective of this course is to cultivate a social science perspective for a thorough comprehension of each topic and then help students develop a more intellectual understanding of economics as a discipline that cuts across much of social sciences and humanities.