...Laurence S. Moss Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Isaac Butt and the Early Development of the Marginal Utility Theory of Imputation Laurence S...

... reexamine the existing body of Longfieldian literature and offer an alternative assess- ment of the significance of Longfield’s price theory and its place in the LAURENCES. Moss is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. His article on Isaac Butt appears in volume 5...

....” Using archival sources, Murphy shows that the Whig archbishop secured the chair for Longfield on both political and academic grounds. In 1836, Whately’s conservative opposition won the chair for the Tory, Isaac Butt. Not too much, however, should be made of these political labels. What is more...

..., Whately’s conservative opposition won the chair for the Tory, Isaac Butt. Not too much, however, should be made of these political labels. What is more crucial, as R. D. C. Black shows, is to appreciate that both Longfield and Butt were social reformers. Black, the foremost historian of Irish...

... Richerche, 18, Ente per Gli Studi Monetari, Bancari e Finanziari Luigi Einaudi. Barber , William J. 1987 . The Career of Alvin H. Hansen in the 1920s and 1930s: A Study in Intellectual Transformation. HOPE 19 . 2 : 191 -206. Bensusan-Butt , David M. [ 1967 ] 1980 . Keynes's General...

..., Richard Musgrave, Tibor Scitovsky, Paul Samuelson, and Leon Keyserling. The editors have done a good job, although Nixon’s New Economic Policy was initiated in 1971, not 1972 (111), David Bensusan-Butt’s surname is not “Bensusan Buck” (62), and the index...

... and Philosophy 1 ( Oct. ): 303 -35. Hausman , Daniel M. 1984 . ‘Are general equilibrium theories explanatory?’ In Joseph C. Pitt, ed., Philosophy in economics , vol. 16 in Robert E. Butts, ed., The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht, 1981), 17 -32. The essay...

...: “I dare say you may have gathered that I had no particular admiration or liking for him.” Cairnes to Courtney, 4 Aug. 1867, Courtney Collection, I. British Library of Political and Economic Science. 46. Mountifort Longfield and Isaac Butt both warned against excessive abstraction...

...] 1965 . Predecessors of Adam Smith; the Growth of British Economic Thought . New York: Augustus M. Kelley. Lythe , S. G. E. , and J. Butt. 1975 . An Economic History of Scotland . Glasgow and London: Blackie. Munro Sir Thomas . 1830 . The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart...

.... 1971 . The Social and Economic Thought of Robert Owen. Robert Owen: Prince of Cotton Spinners . Edited by John Butt. Newton Abbot, England: David & Charles. Owenism and the Malthusian Population Question, 1815-1835 Russell Dean The population theory of T. R. Malthus (the idea...

... Isaac Butt onward as he was with the think- ing of the English and Irish economists who sought to reconcile Ireland to the Act of Union.7 With this in mind he posed an intriguing counterfac- tual at the end of his book: would repeal of the Act of Union have solved Ireland’s economic problems...

... . London: G. Allen and Unwin. Brennan, H. G., and A. M. C. Waterman, eds. 1994 . Economics and Religion: Are They Distinct? Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Butts, R. B., and J. W. Davis. 1970 . The Methodological Heritage of Newton . Oxford: Blackwell. Cannan, E., ed. 1969 . The Paper...

... . The ultimate foundations of economic science (1962); 2d ed., Kansas City, Mo. Mittelstrass , Jurgen 1977 . ‘Changing concepts of the a priori.’ In R. Butts & J. Hintikka, eds., Historical and philosophical dimensions of logic, methodology and philosophy of science . Dordrecht, Holland...

... Doctrine. In Oxford Studies in the Price Mechanism , edited by T. Wilson and P. W. S. Andrews. Bain , J. 1956 . Barriers to New Competition . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Bensusan-Butt , D. 1994–95 . Personal communication. Cairncross , A. 1989 . The Roberthall Diaries...

.... 325-29; Thornton, A Plea for Peasant Proprietors (London, 1848), ch. 5. Richard Cobden and John Bright, unlike the classicists, did advocate “free trade in land” as a means to solve the Irish problem. Black, pp. 33-34. Isaac Butt advocated simply fixity of tenure for Irish cotters, a program...

... aspects of conduet, butt his conclusive view ,was that ((emotions are the masters, the intellect is the servant” and “little can ‘be done by improving the servant while the masters remained unimproved. ’ ’* An individual can maximize his happiness only within a social 2. Spencer did issue...

... and less stereotyped one. The important point about mSarginahmis that it was b.wed on the notion of a general principle oC economic rationality which embraced both the pmfit-maximizing activibies of firms and the utility-maximizing (or preference-max- imizing) mtivi4ies of consumers, butt...

..., and was first set forth in detail in Robert Owen’s ‘Report to the County of Lanark’ (in A new view of society and other writings, ed. John Butt, London, 1977, p. 246). Another well-known statement of this was Thompson’s Inquiry, pp. 6-17. See also Weitling’s Guarantien, pp. 155-63...