..., Hotelling was an enthusiastic board game player, particularly of Monopoly. In its original version, Monopoly was known as the Landlord s Game and was created by a Georgist activist, Elizabeth Magie, precisely for the purpose of comparing the Georgist model with the capitalist one. The game was used, during...

... 1976b . An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . Edited by Andrew S. Skinner and R. H. Campbell. Oxford: Clarendon. (WN). Smith , Adam 1978 . Lectures on Jurisprudence Edited by R. L. Meek, D. D. Raphael, and P. G. Stein. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (LJ) Smith...

... and economic overtones of the early- seventeenth-century and late-eighteenth-century agrarian revolutions 90 S. Todd Lowry need to be developed separately, as does the consideration of what C. J. Reid (1995) has called the “landlord’s revolution.” Returning to the seventeenth-century agricultural...

...—the ambitions of the workers are limited by their existence as workers, a route Diatkine explores by resorting to TMS 's poor man's son dilemma. Taking into account the fact that landlords are characterized by their prodigality, we have thus three classes whose horizons, behaviors, and sentiments are quite...

... with each other within the context of what is now called a cooperative game. The making and breaking of provisional contracts provides a free flow of information within the market; and if the number of competitors is sufficiently large the solu- tion of such a game exactly corresponds...

... of the landlord until 1880 (Munsche 1980, 157), the most intense application of the game laws falls between 1776, when the Wealth of nations was published, and the 184Os, an interval often used to mark the age of clas- sical political economy. The British game laws, the harshest in the world...

... seriously glitter more than others and growth can really happen. Only with manufactures can landlords spend all their produce on themselves without sharing it with others ( WN III.iv.10). Great lords can buy golden toothpicks, nail clippers, diamond buckles, and an infinite number of “trinkets and baubles...

... of the European political situation in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and we also investigate their proposals by making use of the lan- guage and analytical tools developed in modern game theory. Moreover, we briefly discuss (section 5) the echoes of the 1815 debate in some of the subsequent works...

.... Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976), 28-30. David Hume held similar views. In his essay “Of the Original Contract” he asked the reader to “consider how nearly equal all men are in their bodily force, and even in their mental powers and faculties, ’ere...

... the possibility of a general glut of commodities in the England of the 1820’s. This is a problem significant in its own right, and in judg- ing his merits, the real question should be whether Malthus’ analysis stands up to close scrutiny. Whether his views coincide with those of Keynes or do...

... for the cultivation of the demesne-that portion of the manor which he reserved for himself-and it was primarily from the produce of the demesne that he had his living. The economic relationship, then, between the landlord and cultiva- tor required but little use of money. Concerning the relations between...

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...). This, however, is possible only if the landlords act as a collective body, imposing upon the producers a sort of tax for the use of the lands, or by acting as a joint monopolist (J. S. Mill, 520, 572–73; Toniolo 1877, 477–78; Bortkiewicz 1910–11; Morishima 1989, 35). Liberatore (1889, 221–22) does...

... and Distribution since Adam Smith . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hollander, S. 1973 . The Economics of Adam Smith . London: Heinemann. Hueckel, G. 1998 . Smith's Uniform “Toil and Trouble”: A Vain Subtlety? Journal of the History of Economic Thought 20.2 : 215 –33. Marx, K. [1862–63...

... History of Political Economy 52:1 (2020) Grieve s ruminations is specious: it derives solely from his idiosyncratic interpretation of a labor theory that can only apply in the absence of capitalists and landlords; and that is neither my conception of a labor theory (the one in the article...

... Malthus defended the Corn Laws, and with scant success. The virtual unanimity of the classical economists on this question has led historians almost to ignore the theoretical (as opposed to the political) case for protection. One undeserved victim of this neglect has been E. S. Cay- ley, one...

...Balbir S. Sihag Correspondence may be addressed to Balbir S. Sihag, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA 01854; e-mail: balbir_sihag@uml.edu . Duke University Press 2007 Acemoglu, Daron, and Thierry Verdier. 2000 . The Choice between Market Failures and Corruption. American...

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...Lars Magnusson Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economic History, Uppsala University, Box 513, S-751 20 Uppsala SWEDEN. Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 History of Political Economy 19:3...

...- lature to limit the number of houses that are to be built, in order that landlords shall get high rents, and to put an excise on fuel, that none but the rich can afford to warm themselves [1829, 1.8:115]. The argument is then exaggerated from the market for housing and heat to the market...