.... Louisiana State University WILLIAMF. CAMPBELL * * the Goldsmiths’-Kress microjk For historians of economics, the most important publishing event in a long while is the placing on microfilm of the major part of the combined holdings of the Goldsmiths’ Library...

.... The more things change References An argument proving that the South Sea Company are able to make a dividend of 38 per cent for 12 years. 1720. London: Printed for W. Barcham. Kress-Goldsmith Microfilm Collection. Barbon, Nicholas. [1690] 1934. A Discourse on Trade.InA Reprint of Economic...

...Werner Hochwald BOOK REVIEWS Dialogue in Political Economy: Translations From and Into German in the Eighteenth Century. By Kenneth E. Carpenter. Boston: Kress Library Publications Number 23, 1977. Pp. viii, 95. $5.00. The Kress Library, under the direction of its...

... for regulating brokers, for making void all contracts and agreements already made... .London. Kress-Goldsmith Microfilm Collection. ____. 1720a . An argument proving that the South Sea Company are able to make a dividend of 38 per cent for 12 years . London: Printed for W. Barcham. London. Kress-Goldsmith...

..., 1986. Pp. 28. $7.00 (softcover). Historians of economic thought know the Kress Library through a multitude of sources. Most of them probably got their first introduction through Schumpeter’s History of economic analysis which was researched there in the years immediately following...

... plan of a theoretical training of businessmen replacing or supplementing apprenticeship did not emanate from Postlethwayt. The plan is con- tained in an anonymously published booklet preserved in the Kress Library of Harvard University, an item which has the indifferent title...

... * * the Goldsmiths’-Kress microjk For historians of economics, the most important publishing event in a long while is the placing on microfilm of the major part of the combined holdings of the Goldsmiths’ Library at the University of London and of the Kress Library at Harvard. They are two...

... and the additions to it) are original source materials in the history of economic thought. They provide us with a rare glimpse at how early modem Europeans first con- ceived of economic behavior and phenomena. Two recent books researched in part at the Kress demonstrate this richness-Joyce Appleby’s...

...Geoffrey Gilbert Paul Sturges. Boston: Baker Library, 1984. Kress Library Publication Number 24. Pp. 84. $8.00. Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 363 thirty-four when his The theory of monopolistic competition...

... nineteenth centuries. (Preface by Ruth Rogers). Boston: Harvard Busi- ness School, 1986. Pp. 28. $7.00 (softcover). Historians of economic thought know the Kress Library through a multitude of sources. Most of them probably got their first introduction through Schumpeter’s History of economic...

... was published in English only in 1936, while one of his main antagonists had been available in English in his own lifetime.6 I1 Once the importance of translations for the history of political economy and business was recognized, the Kress Library of Harvard...

... that Solly stayed in Sweden in 1812, where the 3. This pamphlet is very rare. There is an incomplete copy in the Kress Library at Har- vard, number B 6399. There is no copy in the Goldsmith Library at the University of London, nor in the Einaudi Library in Milan. I bought my copy, recently...

..., geologist, economist and local histo- rian. By Paul Sturges. Boston: Baker Library, 1984. Kress Library Publication Number 24. Pp. 84. $8.00. In the marketplace of economic ideas, George Poulett Scrope’s stock is cur- rently undervalued and due for a rise. No less an authority than Joseph...

.... A parallel question concerns the search for scarce publications, especially works in foreign languages, for Which the extraordinary Kress Library has shouldered a major, but not exclusive, responsibility .We expect our pages to contain suggestions for action on such questions in the future...

... a fascinating glimpse of German culture and its contribution to political economy in its formative stage. It offers a guide to understanding the wide range and puzzling extremes of German intellectual and political history. It holds great promise for the future publications of the Kress Library...

... the 1825 translation is a translation of Say’s Catkchisme, not of the Traitt. Mr Carpenter is pleased to report that the Kress Library of Business and Economics, part of Harvard’s Baker Library, has the two Danish translations of Say as well as Fallesen’s translation of Ricardo. 426 History...

.... No. 14, Kress Collection of Business and Economics. Boston: The Kress Library of Business and Economics. Coats, A. W. 1958 . Changing Attitudes to Labour in the Mid-Eighteenth Century. Economic History Review 11.1 : 35 -51. Davenant, Charles. [1771] 1967 . The Political and Commercial Work...

... . Pricing the Priceless: Art, Artists, and Economics . New York: Basic Books. Humfrey , Peter . 1995 . Painting in Renaissance Venice . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Kress , Gunther , and Theo Van Leeuwen. 1996 . Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design . London: Routledge...

...Metin M. Coşgel Professor Metin M. Coşel, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Box U-63, Room 328, 341 Mansfield Road, The University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269-1063. I am grateful to the referees and the participants at the April 1993 meeting of the Kress...

...- sented by him to Mrs. Mary Paley Marshall. I am grateful to the Kress Library for having provided me with a copy of the questions and to the Marshall Library, Cambridge, own- ers of the originals. Internal evidence points to 1830 as the year in which Malthus dic- tated the questions. Below...