Ricardian economics
Subtitle: a historical study
Series: Yale studies in economics ; v. 8
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
Copyright date: 1958
Subjects: Ricardo, David, 1772-1823.; Economics -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 243-261.
"Grew out of a doctoral dissertation [The evolution of Ricardian economics in England] submitted to Columbia University in 1955."
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction.; title: A note on Ricardo criticism; title: 2. Ricardo's system.; title: Corn laws and food prices; title: The rentless margin; title: The invariable measure of value; title: The fundamental theorem of distribution; title: Pessimism versus optimism; title: A labor theory of value?; title: 3. The heyday of Ricardian economics.; title: The triumph of the new political economy; title: The only two disciples; title: Bailey's attack; title: The status of Ricardian economics by 1830; title: 4. Ricardo on full employment.; title: Ricardo's new views on the machinery question; title: The machinery question in classical economics; title: Marxian unemployment and Keynesian unemployment; title: 5. Malthus' heresy on gluts.; title: Malthus' opposition to Ricardo; title: The optimum propensity to save; title: The defense of the law of markets; title: Physiocracy and the theory of gluts; title: The outcome of the debate; title: 6. Population and wages.; title: Malthus' principle of population; title: Neo-Malthusianism; title: The eclipse of the Malthusian doctrine in the 1830s; title: John Stuart Mill on population; title: The wages fund doctrine; title: An alternative theory of wages; title: 7. Political economy to be read as literature.; title: The Malthusian theory of population; title: Poor laws; title: Free trade; title: The Ricardian theory of distribution; title: The wages fund and trade unions; title: Functions of government; title: 8. Voices in the wilderness.; title: The Ricardian socialists; title: Jones and the theory of rent; title: The abstinence theory of profit; title: Longfield's lectures; title: Robert Torrens' Volte-Face; title: 9. The half-way house of John Stuart Mill.; title: Mill's intellectual sources; title: Harmony or disharmony of interests?; title: The theory of value; title: Productive and unproductive consumption; title: Secular changes in wages, profits, and rents; title: The empirical relevance of Ricardian economics; title: The stationary state and socialism; title: 10. Matters of economic policy.; title: The framework of the debate; title: The poor laws; title: Free trade and the Manchester school; title: Post-mortem on the corn laws; title: 11. The closing decades : Fawcett and Cairnes; title: 12. Conclusion : The evolution of Ricardian economics; title: Appendixes.; title: Ricardo and Marx; title: Malthus and Keynes; title: McCulloch's critique of the factory system