English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists
This volume presents commissioned essays on important, but often neglected, Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Noticeable papers include Tom Sowell on 'Observations on Certain Verbal Disputes' and Sam Hollander's extended essay on Samuel Bailey, which adds to his voluminous treatment of the great classical economists. This volume intends to bring much needed attention back onto forgotten economists that shaped economic history.
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English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists
This volume presents commissioned essays on important, but often neglected, Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Noticeable papers include Tom Sowell on 'Observations on Certain Verbal Disputes' and Sam Hollander's extended essay on Samuel Bailey, which adds to his voluminous treatment of the great classical economists. This volume intends to bring much needed attention back onto forgotten economists that shaped economic history.
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English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists

English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists

English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists

English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists

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This volume presents commissioned essays on important, but often neglected, Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Noticeable papers include Tom Sowell on 'Observations on Certain Verbal Disputes' and Sam Hollander's extended essay on Samuel Bailey, which adds to his voluminous treatment of the great classical economists. This volume intends to bring much needed attention back onto forgotten economists that shaped economic history.

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ISBN-13: 9780857240613
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date: 12/13/2010
Series: Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology , #28
Pages: 410
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors. EDITORIAL BOARD. Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman: Champion of the neglected British epigones. John Gray's essential principles of the wealth of nations. Granville Sharp: a neglected economist?. Robert Torrens as a ‘neglected economist’. John Cazenove (1788–1879) on Say's law and bank credit: a worthy recruit for the ‘brave army of heretics’?. Seligman on ‘E.R.’: a contribution to the history of mathematical economics. Samuel Bailey and the question of his ‘influence’: a sceptical view. Placing William Forster Lloyd in context. John Rooke: Rent, distribution, money and repeal of the Corn Laws. Piercy Ravenstone: Tory democrat and physiocratic anti-capitalist. A dissenter from Ricardian complacency: the contribution of George Ramsay. Mountifort Longfield. Isaac Butt and neglected political economists. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Copyright page.
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