Classical Writings on Economics:

As Selected by J R McCulloch

This collection was compiled by John Ramsay McCulloch in the 1850s for Lord Overstone and represents a complete selection of the work of his predecessors by a considerable economist for his professional colleagues. It contains many important pamphlets and short works which are unavailable as well as other better-known works reprinted in full in one edition for the first time.

Classical economist, writer and teacher John Ramsay McCulloch (1789– 1864) contributed regularly to the Scotsman and Edinburgh Review; and in 1828 was appointed the first professor of political economy at London University. McCulloch was also a keen book collector and after his death his library was purchased by Lord Overstone and ultimately presented to Reading University.

Each volume contains a preface and notes by McCulloch, and an original index.

Contents

Volume 1
Introduction by D P O’Brien; A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce by Munn, Roberts, North, and Others (1856)
Volume 2
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money by Vaughan, Cotton, Petty, Lowndes, Newton, Prior, Harris and Others (1856)
Volume 3
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications on Paper Currency and Banking, from the originals of Hume, Wallace, Thornton, Ricardo, Blake, Huskisson, and Others (1857)
Volume 4
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts and Other Publications on the National Debt and the Sinking Fund, From the originals of Harley, Gould, Pulteney, Walpole, Hume, Price, Hamilton, and Others (1857)
Volume 5
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Commerce, from the originals of Evelyn, Defoe, Richardson, Tucker, Temple, and Others (1859)
Volume 6
A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Economical Tracts from the originals of Defoe, Elking, Franklin, Turgot, Anderson, Schomberg, Burke, Bell, and Others (1859)

Reviews

‘McCulloch riteneva che per gli economisti, i politici e i banchieri che facevano parte del Political Economy Club fosse utile poter disporre di una selezione della letteratura econmica dei due secoli precedenti. Compiuta con un occhio ai suoi destinatari, e ovviamente escludendo i grandi classici, più facilmente disponibili a tutti, la selezione di McCulloch offre un quadro variegato e interessante del dibattito economico del periodo che va dal Seicento ai primi anni dell’Ottocento.’
– Moneta e Credito

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