Before method and models : the political economy of Malthus and Ricardo / Ryan Walter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walter, Ryan, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in the history of economics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in the history of economics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical school of economics.

Economics--Great Britain--History.

Economics.

Great Britain--Economic policy.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.

Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834.

Malthus, T. R.

Ricardo, David, 1772-1823.

Ricardo, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Before Method and Models' examines the shocked reaction to their first appearance of economists in nineteenth-century Britain, where the presumption of Thomas Robert Malthus and David Ricardo to reform society on the basis of theory was unwelcome. Walter shows how the major challenge facing the first economists was, accordingly, to legitimize the activity of theorizing and then reforming economic life, along with the institutions that embedded it in the political nation.

Contents:

The debate over theory before Malthus and Ricardo : Burke, Mackintosh, and Stewart

The vocabulary of theory and practice in the Bullion controversy, 1797-

The corn laws and free trade casuistry, 1813-

Doctrinal contest I : value

Doctrinal contest II : rent

Doctrinal contest III : profits

Conclusion: A new past.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-760142-1

0-19-760307-6

OCLC:

1261380356