...D. P. O'Brien; A. C. Darnell Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 History of Political Economy 12:3 @ 1980 by Duke University Press Torrens, McCulloch, and the “Digression on Sismondi” : whose...

... Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 History of Political Economy 12:3 @ 1980 by Duke University Press Torrens, McCulloch, and the “Digression on Sismondi” : whose digression? A reply...

.... 1911 . Ricardo and Torrens. Economic Journal 21.83 : 448 -68. Irwin, Douglas. 1996 . Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Kemp, Murray C., and Masayuki Okawa. Forthcoming. The Torrens-Ricardo Principle of Comparative Advantage...

... 0 1990 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/90/$1.50 New light on the military career of Robert Torrens Frank W. Fetter Over twenty-five years ago I published “Robert Torrens: colonel of marines and political economist.”l Its principal points...

...William O. Thweatt Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 The digression on Sismondi : by Torrens or McCulloch? William 0. Thweatt Eighteen-nineteen must have been quite a year for Ricardo, closing out what has been called the “Ricardian decade.”l By February...

... industrial sectors and cut both their corn exports and their imports of foreign industrial goods. We critically assess Malthus’s views and compare them with Torrens 1815 and Ricardo 1822. We argue that the weak point of Malthus’s reasoning lies in his inability to perceive that an international trade-induced...

... . O'Brien , D. P. , and A. C. Darnell 1980a . ‘Torrens, McCulloch, and the “Digression on Sismondi”: whose digression?’ History of Political Economy , 12 . 3 . O'Brien , D. P. , and A. C. Darnell 1980b . ‘A rejoinder,’ History of Political Economy 12 . 3 . Robbins , Lionel 1958...

... Authorship: The Federalist Papers . Reading, Mass., 1964 . O'Brien , D. P. J. R. McCulloch: A Study in Classical Economics . London, 1970 . O'Brien , D. P. “The Transition in Torrens' Monetary Thought.” Economica , n.s. 32 ( 1965 ): 269 -301. Ricardo , D . Works...

...William O. Thweatt BOOK REVIEWS The economists refuted, 1808, and other early economic writings. By Robert Torrens. Edited with an Introductioin by Peter D. Groenewegen. Sydney: Uni- versity of Sydney, Department of Economics, Reprints of Economic Classics, Series 2, Number 3...

... of comparative advantage. The main characters in this account are familiar-Torrens, Ricardo, McCulloch, and later, John Stuart Mill, but the hitherto unrecognized crucial role played by James Mill is shown and emphasized. Modern texts in beginning economics...

.... Amsterdam:North-Holland. Harrod, R. F. 1946 . John Maynard Keynes. Review of Economics and Statistics 28 : 178 -82. ____. 1951 . The Life of John Maynard Keynes . London: Macmillan. Hollander, Jacob H. 1911 . Ricardo and Torrens. Economic Journal 21 : 455 -68. Hollander, Samuel. 1979...

... also ibid., pp. 122-31. 7. See especially John R. McCulloch, A Treatise on the Principles, Practice, and History of Commerce (London, 1832), p. 8. 98 History of Political Economy 13:l (1981) by Torrens, Rooke, Buchanan, and others? The argument was re- peated later...

..., Studies in the Theory of International Trade (New York, 1937), pp. 504-7. 9. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy [1848], ed. W.J. Ashley (Lon- don, 1909), p. 681, and ibid., pp. 102-15 for a more detailed discussion. 10. Robert Torrens, Letters on Commercial Policy...

...] 2003, Torrens 1819, and McCulloch [1823] 2003.1 Indeed, Professor Hollander’s acceptance of my interpretation of McCulloch [1823] 2003 is quite a coup, because that piece had been invoked by him as provid- ing “crystal clear” evidence of McCulloch’s subscription to “the classical growth model...

..., was seemingly completed with Torren’s question to the Club on 14 April 183 1 : “Are any of the principles first advanced in [Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy and Taxation] now acknowledged to be correct?” Dean / Owenism and Population 581 not prevent dissent from...

... instance is Sowell’s statement that Ricardo “acknowledged” the “so-called forced savings doctrine, also subscribed to by Malthus, Thornton, and Torrens” (p. 65). No mention is made of M. A. Hudson’s important article challenging the “neo-classical” interpretation to the effect that Ricardo...

... and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . Edited by R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd. Oxford. Spengler , J. J. 1959 . John Rae on Economic Development: A Note. Quarterly Journal of Economics 73 : 393 -406. Torrens , R. [1821] 1965 . An Essay on the Production of Wealth...

... times.21It may be argued that as ‘scientific’ econo- mists we should pay no heed to such providential notions; nevertheless such prominent economists as Torrens, Senior, and von Thunen have em- braced the idea, and I see no reason to do otherwise.22 Overall, I am forced to conclude...

... unwittingly joined a long list of investigators who have found that the relation between the two methods is complementary and nok 20. Principles of Political Economy, ed. Sraffa (Cambridge, Eng., 1951), pp. 81, 412. 21. By 1844 Robert Torrens had realized that Ricardo had developed a frame...

... importance, not only to Ricardo but to Malthus and Torrens as well. It is the narrowness of Berg’s interpretation of political economy, limited to the machinery issue, that I question, even though she makes a strong case in arguing that political economy grew out of debates on this particular topic...