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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Genebal Biblioobapht.- There is no satisfactory general history of political economy in English. Blanijui's "Histoire de I'6conomie. politiqne en Europe" (Pari... More

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. Genebal Biblioobapht.- There is no satisfactory general history of political economy in English. Blanijui's "Histoire de I'6conomie. politiqne en Europe" (Paris, 1837) is disproportioned and superficial, and he labors under the disadvantage of not understanding the English school of economists. lie studies to give the history of economic facts, rather than of economic laws. The book has been translated into English (Now York, 1880). Villenouve-Bargemont, in his " Histoire de l'�conomio politique" (Paris, 1841), aims to oppose a " Christian political economy" to the " English " political economy, and indulges in religious discussions. Travers Twiss, " View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe since the Sixteenth Century " (London, 1847), marked an advance by treating the subject in the last four centuries, and by separating the history of principles from the history of facts. It is brief, and only a sketch. Julius Kautz has published in German the best existing history, " Die geschichtliche Entwickelung der National-Oekonomie und ihrer Literatur" (Vienna, 1860). (See Cossa, "Guide to the Study of Political Economy," page 80.) Cossa in his hook has furnished a vast amount of information about writers, classified by epochs and countries, and a valuable discussion of the divisions of political economy by various writers, and its relation to other sciences. It is a very desirable little band-book. McCulloch, in his "Introduction to the Wealth of Nations," gives a brief sketch of the growth of economic doctrine. The editor begs to acknowledge his great indebtedness for information to his colleague, Professor Charles F. Dnnbar, of Harvard University. Systematic study for an understanding of the laws of political eco...

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