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• Economics—History—19th century—Great Britain [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores the commonly-perceived paradigmatic conflict between the 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. It will interest all serious historians of economic thought and will find a place on the bookshelves of many economists across the world."--Jacket.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 11, 2023).

Contents

• Preface xi
• 1 Introduction 1 (24)
• The classical canon
• 1 (14)
• The Ricardo-Say relation: a review of the literature
• Plan of work
• 23 (2)
• 2 Value, distribution and growth before 1823 25 (61)
• Say's cost price analysis 1803
• 25 (1)
• Cost-price analysis 1814-17
• 26 (4)
• The Notes (1819) on Ricardo's Principles: cost price
• 30 (16)
• The Notes (1819) on Ricardo's Principles: rent
• 46 (9)
• Modifications to the Traite 1819
• 55 (9)
• A further modification: the falling rate of interest and the inverse profit-wage relation
• 64 (3)
• The 'subsistence' wage and population size
• 67 (3)
• The utility dimension
• 70 (5)
• The Say-Ricardo correspondence 1820-2: approaching accord on value theory
• 75 (11)
• 3 Value, distribution and growth after 1823 86 (58)
• Cost price analysis
• 86 (11)
• Pricing and 'utility'
• 97 (9)
• Service-supply conditions
• 106 (13)
• The earnings structure
• 119 (3)
• Land-based limits to growth, the falling wage path and the stationary state
• 122 (6)
• The falling rate of interest
• 128 (1)
• Summary: Say's representation of Ricardo
• 129 (15)
• 4 On 'riches': real income and its measurement 144 (45)
• Introduction
• 144 (1)
• The early Say-Ricardo exchange 1815
• 145 (1)
• Riches' as real-income flow: the case elaborated
• 146 (10)
• The late Say-Ricardo exchange 1821-2
• 156 (2)
• Post-1823 statements
• 158 (7)
• Malthus on Say and 'riches'
• 165 (5)
• Capital accumulation: productive and unproductive consumption
• 170 (7)
• On surplus: gross and net revenue
• 177 (2)
• Taxation and economic activity
• 179 (5)
• The gains from trade
• 184 (1)
• Summary and conclusion
• 185 (4)
• 5 The Law of Markets 189 (37)
• 189 (1)
• Say's first statement, 1803
• 189 (5)
• The evolution of Say's position: general excess supply and the problem of 'counter-commodities'
• 194 (9)
• The interpretation of contemporary depression
• 203 (9)
• 'Limits to production': the Law of Markets recanted?
• 212 (2)
• The Law of Markets and Say's entrepreneur
• 214 (5)
• Questions of priority: Say and James Mill
• 219 (3)
• 222 (4)
• 6 Say and the classical canon: an overview 226 (36)
• John Stuart Mill's conciliatory position
• 226 (1)
• Methodology
• 227 (23)
• Doctrine
• 250 (4)
• Say and the canonical growth model
• 254 (4)
• Internal paradigmatic conflicts
• 258 (4)
• 7 Conclusion 262 (23)
• The impression of systemic discord
• 262 (4)
• Say's increasing hostility
• 266 (10)
• An hypothesis
• 276 (9)
• Appendix I Say's Notes on Ricardo's Principles 285 (2)
• Appendix II On Say's charges against McCulloch of plagiarism 287 (2)
• Appendix III McCulloch's review of Say 1821 [1819a] 289 (4)
• Notes 293 (18)
• Bibliography 311 (7)
• Index 318.

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