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George Scrope (1797-1876), Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) and John Cairnes (1823-1875) (Hardcover)
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George Scrope (1797-1876), Thomas Attwood (1783-1856), Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) and John Cairnes (1823-1875) (Hardcover)
Series: Pioneers in Economics series
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George Scrope was a prolific anti-Ricardian Tory economist, Member
of Parliament and Fellow of the Royal Society. However, this was a
highly eccentric toryism. Scrope opposed the Malthusian theory of
population, favoured free trade and agitated for parliamentary
reform. Thomas Attwood was the leading monetary crank of his day
and was ridiculed for promoting the ideas of a paper standard
currency. Although he presented the mammoth Chartist petition to
parliament in 1839, even the Chartists would not contemplate his
radical and futuristic monetary innovations.What McCulloch was to
Ricardo, John Elliot Cairnes was to John Stuart Mill, a faithful
disciple who did not always see eye to eye with his master. He has
been called the last of the classical economists and the title is
well deserved. Edwin Chadwick, a one time secretary to Bentham, was
influential during the second quarter of the nineteenth century and
much of his work, in particular his contributions to the 'Blue
Books' of the period, helped to lay the foundations of the British
Welfare State. Although a utilitarian in politics and a Ricardian
in economics, he had a view of the problems of externalities which
went way beyond anything dreamed of by Ricardo. This series of
essays on these four maverick figures vividly conveys the flavour
of the English Classical Political Economy in the heyday of the
industrial revolution.
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