A Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects, and Importance, of Political Economy; Containing an Outline of a Course of Lectures on the Principles and Doctrines of that Science

Second edition, corrected and enlarged (first published the previous year). 8vo. (4), 124 pp. 1832 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman catalogue bound in ahead of the front endpaper. A revised edition of the author's 1824 Ricardo Memorial Lectures delivered in London. "McCulloch's place is rather among statisticians than economists . [and] did little more than restate the views [of Adam Smith and Ricardo] in the unqualified and dogmatic terms . as a diligent collector, however, of economic facts, he did eminently useful work" (DNB). Very good untrimmed copy. Original boards, rebacked in cloth. (#4759).