...Dennis A. Johnson Department of Economics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069; E-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 References Black , and R. D. Collison. 1942 . Mountifort Longfield: His Economic Thought and Writings Reviewed...

... was trained in Algeria in the early thirteenth century and who helped introduce Arabic numerals into North Italian bookkeeping, may have been a link in a pan-Mediterranean commercial tradition. Washington and Lee University S. TODDLOWRY Mountifort Longfield...

...Laurence S. Moss Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Mountifort Longfield’s supply-and-demand theory of price and its place in the development of British economic theory Laurence S. Moss A correct assessment of Lonaeld’s place in the development...

.... Moss 0 NE OF the most remarkable and hitherto miloticed developments in nineteenth-century British thought, was Isaac Butt ’sl attempt to com- bine Mountifort Longfield’s theory of profit2 with the general utility LAURENCEMOSS is Assistant Professor...

.... Washington and Lee University S. TODDLOWRY Mountifort Longfield: Ireland’s First Professor of Political Economy. By Laurence S. Moss. Ottawa, Illinois: Green Hill Publishers, 1976. Pp. 249. $14.95. Longfield, despite occasional references made by J. E. Cairnes...

.... ____. 1997 . The Economics of Thomas Robert Malthus . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Kern, William S. 2003 . McCulloch, Scrope, and Hodgskin: Nineteenth-Century Versions of Julian Simon. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 25 (September): 289 -301. Longfield, Mountifort. [1834...

....” This, he concludes, “precludes the study of varying proportions .”7 Accordingly, Ohlin dismisses, almost without exception, the “English classical school .” Longfield, the Irish economist, is, however, credited with a significant contribution, while Sismondi is also cited as the sole evidence...

... of its Whately Chair of Political Economy in 1832. Antoin Murphy examines Mountiford Longfield’s appointment as the first occupant of this chair. Immediately after his elevation as archbishop of the Church of Ireland, Whately, who had been Drummond Profes- sor at Oxford, established a chair...

...- mathena in 1983, is a product of a series of lectures held at Trinity College, Dublin, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of its Whately Chair of Political Economy in 1832. Antoin Murphy examines Mountiford Longfield’s appointment as the first occupant of this chair. Immediately...

... as an ‘ ‘ outlier ”) . If Jevons, Menger, and Walras do not constitute a “multiple,” perhaps Lloyd, Longfield, and Senior deserve the title. But Lloyd, Longfield, and Senior made liktle sub- stantive use of marginal utility and thus only illustrate Whitehead’s adage that everything new has been said before...

... . Jevons , W. Stanley . The Principles of Economics ( 1905 ). Reprinted, New York, 1965a. Jevons , W. Stanley . The Theory of Political Economy (5th edition, 1957 ). Reprinted, New York, 1965b. Knight , Frank H. On the History and Method of Economics . Chicago, 1956 . Longfield...

... that he was apparently not successful in obtaining information about papers of Lalor, W. F. Lloyd, and Longfield. Some of these omissions are slightly puzzling; for instance, the location of the papers of D. H. Robertson is well known. Presumably this was not given as they are in private...

... universities and explaining how his undergraduate interest in inter- national trade theory led him to become a historian of economics, via his research on Mountifort Longfield. Like the author, a reviewer of this volume needs to be selective. In Part 1 the most...

..., all them- selves of undetermined value, how are they to form a standard for reference?ll Another critic adopted an approach similar to that of Scrope in a review of Mountifort Longfield’s Lectures on Political Economy for the Dublin University Magazine of June 1834. He dismisses Adam...

... of international economics, whereupon Moss devotes part I1 of his book to Longfield’s economic policy. This is a little disappointing; one as- sumes the difficulty arises from lack of material, since the first part is so expertly and meticulously written. This is altogether a most interesting...

... information about papers of Lalor, W. F. Lloyd, and Longfield. Some of these omissions are slightly puzzling; for instance, the location of the papers of D. H. Robertson is well known. Presumably this was not given as they are in private possession. But, even with these gaps, a great deal...

..." (95). He agrees with Marx that classical political econ- omy had degenerated into vulgar economy with Senior, Scope, and Longfield; in fact to Perelman's mind non-Marxist economics has apparently remained there ever since. Throughout this book, but especially noticeable in the methodology...

... views differed on various points from those of the orthodox Ricardian schoo1.l Among these men were Robert Torrens, John Craig, Samuel Bailey, Mountifort Longfield, and William F. Lloyd. Since that time, a number of studies have come forth which analyze the contributions...

... of pub- 14. Gordon, ‘‘Criticism of Ricardian Views” (supra, n.2). 15. Place Mss., British Museum, No. 35153, f.92. . 16. D. P. O’Brien, J. R. McCulloch: A Study in Classical Economics (London, 1970), pp. 51 and 63. 17. Hollander presents Mountifort Longfield as a Ricardian...

..., and Longfield as “followers” of the classics. Classifications of this type always leave a certain dissatisfaction; historians of economic thought know only too well that there are a good many of these frontier authors in our subject who are difficult to catalogue. in this volume Agnati shows great...