The Literature of Political Economy: Collected Essays II

by Hollander; Samuel

• ISBN13: 9780415114295
• ISBN10: 0415114292
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Chapters	x	(3)
Preface	xiii	(2)
Acknowledgements	xv
Part I. BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES	3	(38)
1. `IT'S AN ILL WIND...': A MEMOIR (1995) AND ADDENDUM (1996)	3	(25)
2. ON THE TEACHING OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT: ATTACK THE BEST DEFENCE (1975)	28	(7)
3. IN MEMORIAM: WILLIAM JAFFE, 1898-1980 (1981)	35	(6)
Part II. THREE EARLY PAPERS	41	(46)
4. THE REPRESENTATIVE FIRM AND IMPERFECT COMPETITION (1961)	41	(8)
5. ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE JUST PRICE (1965)	49	(16)
6. THE ROLE OF THE STATE IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING: THE CLASSICAL ECONOMISTS' VIEW (1968) AND REPLY TO E. G. WEST (1969)	65	(22)
Part III. ADAM SMITH	87	(40)
7. THE HISTORICAL DIMENSION OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (1976)	87	(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	(17)
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	(54)
Part V. MALTHUS	247	(118)
13. ON THE WORKS OF THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS (1988)	247	(3)
14. NEW EDITIONS OF MALTHUS (1991)	250	(8)
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	(38)
21. SHORT REVIEWS	365	(38)
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	(3)
J. Gilchrist
21.3 The Church and Economic Activity in the Middle Ages {1970}	370	(2)
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	(2)
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