Name Index
A
Abraham a Santa Clara (real name Ulrich Megerle) (1644-1709)— Austrian Catholic preacher and writer.—245
Anderson, James (1739-1808)—Scottish economist who elaborated the basic principles of the differential rent theory.—231, 245, 253, 543
Anne (1665-1714)-—Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1702-14).—540
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)—Greek philosopher.—537, 538
Arnd, Karl (1788-1877)—German vulgar political economist.—503
B
Bailey, Samuel (1791-1870)—English economist and philosopher; criticised Ricardo's labour theory of value.— 35, 37, 126, 222, 276, 277, 299, 312, 320, 324, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 350, 351, 354, 393, 429, 507
Barton, John (1789-1852) —English classical political economist.—7, 187, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205,206, 207, 208, 377, 378
Bastiat, Frederic (1801-1850)—French economist; preached harmony of class interests in capitalist society.— 283, 501, 526, 528, 537
Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832)—English utilitarian philosopher, sociologist.— 531, 537, 540
Berkeley, George (1685-1753)—Irish subjective idealist philosopher; bishop; in his economic writings regarded labour as the main source of wealth; proponent of the nominalistic theory of money.—543
Blake, William (late 18th.-c. mid-19th cent.)—English economist, author of works on money circulation.—93, 94
Bray, John Francis (1809-1897)— English economist; Utopian socialist, follower of Robert Owen; elaborated the theory of "labour money".—8, 429
Buchanan, David (1779-1848)—English journalist and economist, follower of Adam Smith and commentator of his works.—22, 29
Busch, Johann Georg (1728-1800)— German economist, Mercantilist.— 378
C
Cairnes, John Elliot (1823-1875)— English economist and journalist; opposed slavery in the US South.—378 Carey, Henry Charles (1793-1879)— American economist; preached harmony of class interests in capitalist society.—367, 389
Cato, Marcus Porcius the Elder (234-149 B.C.)—Roman statesman and writer, leader of the aristocratic republican party.—532
Cazenove, John (1788-1879)—English vulgar economist, Malthusian, pub-lisher of Malthus' works.—209, 210, 212, 218, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 250, 253
Chalmers, Thomas (1780-1847)— Scottish Protestant theologian and economist, follower of Malthus.—93, 248, 443 Charlemagne (Charles the Great) (742-814)—King of the Franks (768-814) and Holy Roman Emperor (800-814).—541
Charles I—see Charlemagne
Chavie, Honoré Joseph (1815-1877)— Belgian philologist.—429, 430
Cherbuliez, Antoine Elisée (1797-1869)— Swiss economist, tried to combine elements of Sismondi's and Ricardo's theories.—8
Chevé, Charles François (1813-1875)— French journalist; adherent of Christian socialism; follower of Proudhon in 1848-50.—529
Child, Sir Josiah (1630-1699)—English economist, banker and merchant, Mercantilist.—463, 465, 540
Constancio, Francisco Solano (1772-1846)—Portuguese physician, dip-lomat and writer, translated works of English economists into French.—36
Corbet, Thomas—English economist of the 19th century, follower of Ricardo.—129, 419, 421
Culpeper, Sir Thomas (1578-1662)— English economist, Mercantilist.— 463, 540
Custodi, Pietro (1771-1842)—Italian economist, published works by Italian
economists of the late 16th-early 19th centuries.—400
D
Dalrymple Hamilton Macgill, Sir John (1726-1810)—Scottish lawyer and historian.—540
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882)— English naturalist, author of the theory of natural selection of species.—428
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)— English writer and economist; com-mented on Ricardo's works; his own works reflect the disintegration of the Ricardian school.—58, 59, 92, 93, 311, 312
Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude,
comte de (1754-1836)—French economist and philosopher, advocate of constitutional monarchy.—325, 366
Duilius, Marcus (4th cent. B.C.)— Roman tribune.—541
Dureau de la Malle, Adolphe Jules César Auguste (1777-1857)—French poet and historian.—541
E
Emery, Charles Edward (1838-1898)— American engineer.—199
F
Forster, Nathaniel (c. 1726-1790)— English clergyman, author of works on economics; defended the interests of the workers.—542
Fourier, François Marie Charles (1772-1837)—French Utopian socialist.— 373
Frederick II (1194-1250)—King of Germany (1212), Holy Roman Emperor (1220-50).—541
Fullarton, John (1780-1849)—English economist, author of works on
37* money circulation and credit; dis-puted the quantitative theory of money.—129
G
Galiani, Ferdinando (1728-1787)— Italian economist, criticised the Physiocrats; maintained that the value of a commodity was determined by its usefulness; at the same time made correct conjectures on the nature of commodity and money.— 400
Ganilh, Charles (1758-1836)—French economist and politician, epigone of mercantilism.—540
Gamier, Germain, comte de (1754-1821)—French economist and politician, monarchist; follower of the Physiocrats, translator and critic of Adam Smith.—221
Genucius, Lucius (4th cent. B.C.)— Roman tribune (c. 342 B.C.).— 541
Godwin, William (1756-1836)—English writer and philosopher, one of the founders of anarchism.—253
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)—German poet.—362, 526
H
Hallett, Frederick Francis (19th cent.)— English agronomist.—95
Hansbrow (19th cent.)—American inventor.—200
Hawes (19th cent.)—American inventor.—200
Henry VIII (1491-1547)—King of England (1509-47) and Ireland (from 1541).—540
Hodgskin, Thomas (1787-1869)— English economist and journalist, Utopian socialist; drew socialist conclusions from the Ricardian theory.— 8, 394, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 403,
407, 408, 409, 413, 414, 421, 422, 423, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 434, 435, 436, 438, 439, 443, 445, 447
Hopkins, Thomas—English economist of the early 19th cent.—398, 542
Horace (65-8 B.C.)—Roman poet.— 218
Hüllmann, Karl Dietrich (1765-1846)— German historian of the Middle Ages.—541
Hume, David (1711-1776)—Scottish philosopher, historian and economist.—38, 540
Hume, James Deacon (1774-1842)— English economist, Free Trader.—38
J
Jones, Richard (1790-1855)—English economist.—8
Justinian I (483-565)—Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (527-65).— 541
K
King, Gregory (1648-1712)—English statistician.—208
L
Laing, Samuel (1810-1897)—English politician and journalist, Liberal M.P.—425
Lalor, John (1814-1856)—English journalist and economist.—397, 421
Locke, John (1632-1704)—English dual-ist philosopher and economist.—540
Luther, Martin (1483-1546)—German theologian and author; leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reforma-tion.—8, 526, 531, 533, 535, 537, 538
M
MacCormick, Cyrus Hall (1809-1884)— American inventor.—200 M(a)cCulloch, John Ramsay (1789-1864)—Scottish economist, vulgarised Ricardo's doctrine.—7, 112, 223, 257, 277, 283, 293, 353, 354,355,356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363,364,365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 374,400,507, 508
Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)— English clergyman and economist, author of a theory of population.—7, 34, 55, 58, 116, 168, 175, 201, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221-34, 238, 240, 242, 243, 244, 245, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 261, 262, 267, 268, 269, 270, 273, 283, 287, 297, 298, 305, 308, 312, 336, 341, 354, 355, 361, 369, 377, 393, 400, 432, 439
Mill, James (1773-1836)—British historian, economist and positivist philosopher, follower of Ricardo's theory.—7, 124, 134, 223, 224, 250, 254, 266, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284-88, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 349, 351, 353, 357, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366. 368, 369, 400, 410
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)—British economist and positivist philosopher; son of James Mill; epigone of classical political economy.—7, 133, 274, 294, 373, 504, 505, 508
Mullion, Mordecai—see Wilson, John
N
Newman, Francis William (1805-1897)— English philologist and writer, radi-cal; wrote several books on religious, political and economic subjects.—540
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831)— German historian of antiquity.—541
O
Owen, Robert (1771-1858)—British Utopian socialist.—247, 373, 395
P
Parisot, Jacques Theodore (b. 1783)— translator of James Mill's Elements of Political Economy into French.—279, 283, 288, 290
Paterson, William (1658-1719)—Scottish merchant, founder of the Bank of Scotland.—540
Pindar (c. 522-c. 443 B.C.)—Greek lyric poet, famous for his odes.—409
Poppe, Johann Heinrich Moritz von (1776-1854)—German scholar, author of several works on the history of tech-nology.—465
Prévost, Guillaume (1799-1883)—Swiss economist, vulgarised Ricardo's theory.—7, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 370
Price, Richard (1723-1791)—English radical journalist, economist and philosopher.—375
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph (1809-1865)— French writer, economist and sociologist; a founder of anarch-ism.—464, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 536
Q
Quincey, Thomas—see De Quincey, Thomas
R
Ramsay, Sir George (1800-1871)—one of the last English classical political economists.—7, 203
Rau, Karl Heinrich (1792-1870)— German economist.—503
Ravenstone, Piercy (d. 1830)—English economist, a Ricardian; opposed Malthusianism, defended the workers' interests.—8, 392, 394, 395, 396, 399, 442
Ricardo, David (1772-1823)—English economist.—7, 9, 10, 11-15, 18, 21, 22, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 49, 51, 52-64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 79, 82, 84, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 117, 118, 123, 124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 147, 149, 151, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184-88, 190-98, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 209, 210, 211, 215, 219, 222-27, 243, 245, 246, 247, 256, 258, 261, 262, 264, 269, 270, 274, 275, 276, 278, 280, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 293, 294, 295, 296-300, 302, 303, 304, 307, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 318, 324, 325, 326, 333, 334, 335, 338, 339, 345, 349, 350, 351, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361, 362, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 373, 374, 375, 376-79, 387, 388, 389, 391, 392, 393, 394, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 407, 445, 450, 501, 502, 504, 506, 516, 526
Rodbertus-Jagetzow, Johann Karl (1805-1875)—German economist.—437
Röscher, Wilhelm Georg Friedrich (1817-1894)—German economist, professor at Leipzig University; founder of the historical school in political economy.—129, 356, 366, 369, 502
Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl (1792-1878)—British statesman, Whig leader; Prime Minister (1846-52 and 1865-66), Foreign Secretary (1852-53 and 1859-65).—374
S
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de (1760-1825)—French Utopian socialist.—374
Say, Jean Baptiste (1767-1832)—French economist; vulgarised Adam Smith's theory — 13, 35, 36, 101, 102, 124, 125, 131, 132, 133, 160, 179, 180, 269, 283, 285, 294, 307, 310, 311, 365, 366, 367, 368, 370, 387, 500, 501, 537
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C.-A.D. 65)—Roman stoic philosopher.—536
Senior, Nassau William (1790-1864)— English economist, vulgarised David Ricardo's theory.— 224, 505
Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard Simonie de (1773-1842)—Swiss economist, representative of economic romanti-cism.—14, 163, 234, 245, 246, 247, 248, 274, 393, 395, 421
Smith, Adam (1723-1790)—Scottish economist.—7, 9, 11, 18, 22, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 41, 49, 52, 55, 58, 59, 71, 72, 97, 101, 102, 103, 118, 123, 128, 129, 130, 154, 155, 156, 157, 169, 179, 181, 193, 201, 202, 209, 211, 215, 218, 219, 221, 223, 225, 231, 245, 253, 255, 258, 261, 264, 273, 295, 298, 304, 307, 309, 311, 356, 357, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 371, 374, 388, 389, 397, 399, 403, 416, 445, 450, 496, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 514, 516
Spence, Thomas (1750-1814)—English Utopian socialist, advocated the abolition of private ownership of land and the establishment of a kind of ag-rarian socialism.—252
Steuart, Sir James (1712-1780)—English economist, one of the last representatives of mercantilism.—180, 378
Stirling, Patrick James (1809-1891)— English economist.—7, 93, 371, 372
T
Thucydides (c. 460-395 B.C.)—Greek historian, author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.— 369, 502
Tooke, Thomas (1774-1858)—English classical political economist.—162
Torrens, Robert (1780-1864)—English economist, vulgarised Ricardo's theory.—218, 250, 258, 262, 263, 264-70, 287, 349, 361, 393, 400, 507
Townsend, Joseph (1739-1816)—English clergyman, geologist and sociologist; propounded a theory of population later borrowed by Malthus.—231, 245, 253
Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Trajanus) (A.D. 53-117)—Roman Emperor (A.D. 98-117) and general.—541
Tuckett, John Debell (d. 1864)—English publicist.—454
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, baron de l'Aulne (1727-1781)—French economist and statesman; Physiocrat.— 403, 476
U
Ure, Andrew (1778-1857)—English chemist and economist; Free Trader; opposed shortening of the working day.—129
V
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70-19 B.C.)—Roman poet.—539
Antaeus (Gr. Myth.)—a giant, invinci-ble when in contact with the earth; son of Poseidon and Gaea, goddess of the earth.—539
Cacus (Rom. Myth.)—a giant and son of Vulcan; he stole from Heracles some of the cattle of Geryon, drag-ging them backward into his cave under the Aventine, so that their footprints would not show the direction in which they had gone.—539
Dundreary, Lord—a character from Our American Cousin, a satirical comedy by Tom Taylor.—240
W
Wakefield, Edward Gibbon (1796-1862)—British statesman and economist; author of the theory of colonisation.—7, 35, 285, 371, 388, 422
Ward, W.H. (19th cent.)—American inventor.—200
West, Sir Edward (1782-1828)—English classical political economist.—439
Whitney, Eli (1765-1825)—American inventor of a cotton gin.—199
Wilson, James (1805-1860)—English economist and politician, Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1853-58); Free Trader, opposed the quantitative theory of money; founder and editor of The Economist.—129
Wilson, John (1785-1854)—Scottish poet and journalist, wrote under various pen-names.—377
Ezekiel (Bib.)—a prophet.—532
Geryon (Gerion) (Gr. Myth.)—a giant with three heads.—539
Heracles (Hercules) (Gr. and Rom. Myth.)—son of Zeus, famous for his strength and courage.—539
Isaiah (Bib.)—a prophet.—532
Odysseus (Ulysses)—the title character in Homer's poem.—536
Polyphemus (Gr. Myth.)—a Cyclops who lived in a Sicilian cavern and de-voured human beings.—536
Ulysses—see Odysseus
INDEX OF LITERARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES