The Literature of Political Economy: Collected Essays II

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ISBN: 9780415114295 | 0415114292
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Copyright: 12/15/1997

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Samuel Hollander is widely recognized as one of the most important and controversial historians of economic thought. This second volume collects together essays extending beyond classical economics, the subject with which he is most associated. This collection includes: * studies in Scholastic, Smithian and Marshallian literature * papers on the Corn-Law pamphlet literature of 1815, the post-Ricardian dissension, and the marginal revolution * essays on T.R. Malthus, including four bibliographical studies The volume also includes an autobiographical section and reviews of a broad range of important books published in the last thirty years.

Notes on Chapters

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Preface

xiii

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Acknowledgements

Part I. BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES

(38)

1. `IT'S AN ILL WIND...': A MEMOIR (1995) AND ADDENDUM (1996)

(25)

2. ON THE TEACHING OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT: ATTACK THE BEST DEFENCE (1975)

(7)

3. IN MEMORIAM: WILLIAM JAFFE, 1898-1980 (1981)

(6)

Part II. THREE EARLY PAPERS

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4. THE REPRESENTATIVE FIRM AND IMPERFECT COMPETITION (1961)

(8)

5. ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE JUST PRICE (1965)

(16)

6. THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING: THE CLASSICAL ECONOMISTS' VIEW (1968) AND REPLY TO E. G. WEST (1969)

(22)

Part III. ADAM SMITH

(40)

7. THE HISTORICAL DIMENSION OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (1976)

(17)

8. ADAM SMITH AND THE SELF-INTEREST AXIOM (1977)

104

(23)

Part IV. NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE

127

(120)

9. THE POST-RICARDIAN DISSENSION: A CASE-STUDY IN ECONOMICS AND IDEOLOGY (1980)

127

(43)

10. ON P. MIROWSKI'S `PHYSICS AND THE "MARGINALIST REVOLUTION" ' (1989)

170

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11. ON A. ARNON'S THOMAS TOOKE: PIONEER OF MONETARY THEORY (1995)

187

(6)

12. THE CORN-LAW PAMPHLET LITERATURE OF 1815: MALTHUS, WEST, RICARDO AND TORRENS (1996)

193

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Part V. MALTHUS

247

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13. ON THE WORKS OF THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1988)

247

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14. NEW EDITIONS OF MALTHUS (1991)

250

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15. ON MALTHUS'S PHYSIOCRATIC REFERENCES (1992)

258

(11)

16. MALTHUS'S ABANDONMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PROTECTIONISM: A DISCOVERY IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (1992)

269

(14)

17. MORE ON MALTHUS AND AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION (1995)

283

(6)

18. MALTHUS AS PHYSIOCRAT: SURPLUS VERSUS SCARCITY (1995)

289

(28)

19. INTRODUCTION TO FACSIMILE REPRINTS OF MALTHUS'S ESSAY ON POPULATION (1996)

317

(32)

20. ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF `SPENCE ON COMMERCE' IN THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, JANUARY 1808 (1996)

349

(16)

Part VI. SHORT REVIEWS

365

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21. SHORT REVIEWS

365

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D. Winch

James Mill

21.1 Selected Economic Writings {1967}

365

(2)

G. L. S. Shackle

21.2 The Years of High Theory: Invention and Tradition in Economic Thought {1968}

367

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J. Gilchrist

21.3 The Church and Economic Activity in the Middle Ages {1970}

370

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P. Schwartz

21.4 The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill {1973}

372

(2)

R. V. Eagly

21.5 The Structure of Classical Economic Theory {1975}

374

(2)

T. Sowell

21.6 Classical Economics Reconsidered {1976}

376

(4)

B. Gordon

21.7 Economic Analysis Before Adam Smith: Hesiod to Lessius {1977}

380

(3)

L. S. Moss

21.8 Mountifort Longfield: Ireland's First Professor of Political Economy {1978}

383

(3)

D. Winch

21.9 Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision {1979}

386

(3)

F. W. Fetter

21.10 The Economist in Parliament: 1780-1868 {1982}

389

(2)

W. Eltis

21.11 The Classical Theory of Economic Growth {1985}

391

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D. C. Coleman

21.12 History and the Economic Past. An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Britain {1989}

393

(3)

H. Boss

21.13 Theories of Surplus and Transfer {1990}

396

(2)

M. Milgate

S. C. Stimson

21.14 Ricardian Politics {1994}

398

(2)

J. Vint

21.15 Capital and Wages: A Lakatosian History of the Wages Fund Doctrine {1995}

400

(3)

Index

403

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