Some Leading Principles of Political Economy, Newly Expounded.
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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First edition. 8vo. xix, [1], 506, [2], 54 [publisher?s advertisements dated May 1873] pp. Original brown pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and black, front board panelled in black, rear board panelled in blind, edges untrimmed, black coated endpapers (engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Lovelace to the front pastedown, merest hint of faint spotting to preliminaries, contents otherwise generally clean and partially unopened; some trivial shelf wear to edges, else a very fine copy). London, Macmillan and Co. The final work by the Irish economic theorist John Eliot Cairnes (1823?1875), often described as the 'last of the classical economists'. A proponent of the classical system of economics 'as it been set out in Mill's Principles of Political Economy', Cairnes 'did not merely accept Mill's doctrines, but developed them in important respects. His best-known contribution was to show that the principle of reciprocal demand, which Mill had stated for the case of international trade, was applicable also in domestic exchanges to explain the determination of normal values in cases such as those where non-competing groups existed in the supply of labour. However, ? his purpose was ?to strengthen and add consistency? to the fabric constructed by Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and Mill' (ODNB).…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Some Leading Principles of Political Economy, Newly Expounded.
- Author
- CAIRNES (John Elliot).
- Publication year
- 1874
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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