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The Literature of Political Economy : Collected Essays II.
Title:
The Literature of Political Economy : Collected Essays II.
Author:
Hollander, Samuel.
ISBN:
9780203428740
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (427 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Chapters -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Biographical Perspectives -- 1: 'It's an Ill Wind…' -- A memoir -- 2: On the Teaching of the History of Economic Thought -- Attack the best defence -- 3: In Memoriam -- William Jaffé, 1898-1980 -- Part II: Three Early Papers -- 4: The Representative Firm and Imperfect Competition -- 5: On the Interpretation of the Just Price -- 6: The Role of the State in Vocational Training -- The classical economists' view -- Part III: Adam Smith -- 7: The Historical Dimension of the Wealth of Nations -- 8: Adam Smith and the Self-Interest Axiom -- Part IV: Nineteenth-Century Literature -- 9: The Post-Ricardian Dissension -- A case-study in economics and ideology -- 10: On P.Mirowski's 'Physics and the "Marginalist Revolution" ' -- 11: On A.Arnon's Thomas Tooke: Pioneer of Monetary Theory -- 12: The Corn-Law Pamphlet Literature of 1815 -- Malthus, West, Ricardo and Torrens -- Part V: Malthus -- 13: On the Works of Thomas Robert Malthus -- 14: New Editions of Malthus -- 15: On Malthus's Physiocratic References -- 16: Malthus's Abandonment of Agricultural Protectionism -- A discovery in the history of economic thought -- 17: More on Malthus and Agricultural Protection -- 18: Malthus as Physiocrat -- Surplus versus scarcity -- 19: Introduction to Facsimile Reprints of Malthus's Essay on Population -- 20: On the Authorship of 'Spence on Commerce' in the Edinburgh Review, January 1808 -- Part VI: Short Reviews -- 21: Short Reviews.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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