The Literature of Political Economy
A Classified Catalogue of Select Publications in the Different Departments of that Science, with Historical, Critical and Biographical Notices

Featuring many crisply annotated entries, this 1845 bibliography ranges in coverage from money and prices to slavery and foundling hospitals.

J. R. McCulloch (Author)

9781108078702, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 March 2021

428 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.542 kg

A friend, correspondent and intellectual successor to David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1789–1864) forged his reputation in the emerging field of political economy by publishing deeply researched articles in Scottish periodicals and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. From 1828 he spent nearly a decade as professor of political economy at the newly founded University of London, thereafter becoming comptroller of the Stationery Office. Perhaps the first professional economist, McCulloch had become internationally renowned by the middle of the century, recognised for sharing his ideas through lucid lecturing and writing. The present reference work, first published in 1845, reflects McCulloch's extraordinarily wide reading across subjects relating to his field of expertise. Featuring sections on foundling hospitals and slavery, as well as money and prices, the bibliography is annotated throughout with McCulloch's frank assessments. Several other works written or edited by McCulloch are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

Preface
1. Treatise on political economy in general
2. Commerce and commercial policy
3. Money, banks, exchanges, etc.
4. Prices
5. Roads, canals, railways, etc.
6. Political arithmetic, statistics, and agricultural economy
7. Coal trade
8. Herring and other fisheries
9. Manufactures, arts, etc.
10. Insurance of lives, ships, houses, etc.
11. Interest and annuities, usury, etc.
12. Progress of population
13. Foundlings and foundling hospitals
14. Naturalization
15. Bills of mortality
16. Wages, pauperism, poor-laws, etc.
17. Right of property, law of succession, copyrights, etc.
18. Slavery
19. Revenue and finance
20. Miscellaneous
Index of authors
Index of books.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA]