Economic Writings (Volumes I and II)

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Volume I has 304 pages; volume II has 336 pages. Slight edgewear to both volumes, with volume II so tight that it may never have been opened. Editor Sotiroff seems to have collected Barton's various essays, and reprinted them as originally published, with differences in fonts and layouts intact. It is rare to find this pair of volumes in hardcover. "Compared to the cruelty which many a great scholar has suffered at the hands of his contemporaries, the little interest the public has shown for John Barton's exquisite essays in economic theory amounts but to a minor injustice. It is true that Barton was damned with faint praise by McCulloch, dismissed by Tedder in THE DICTIONARY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY as the author of several clever but somewhat unsound pamphlets, and omitted altogether from THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. It is also true that the otherwise good article on him in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES mentions only one of his essays, gives only two bibliographical references and states that the dates of his birth and death are unknown. One might add that even today, more than 100 years after his death, no library seems to possess a full collection of his writings, or even a full list of them. Fortunately during his lifetime John Barton did not have to depend much on public opinion. His estate in Sussex, England, made him an independent country gentleman. He was as interested in botany as he was in the social sciences, and he was free to divide his time between the two as he pleased. He liked to read, and could afford it. He traveled. He seems to have had a pleasant childhood, and he entertained cordial relations with his brothers and sisters throughout his life. Last but not least, he was treated with respect by his illustrious contemporaries. The real losers from the fact that John Barton's writings have remained for so long half covered by the dust of oblivion are undoubtedly those scholars who have had to re discover in the meantime, at the cost of an unnecessary supplementary effort, those flaws in the Ricardian and Malthusian doctrines, which make these doctrines inapplicable to the most vital problems of economic policy and which form, even today, an obstacle to the understanding of many basic issues in the fields of economics, demography and politics." - Introduction. N° de ref. del artículo 003527

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Título: Economic Writings (Volumes I and II)
Editorial: Lynn Publishing Company, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Año de publicación: 1962
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Condición: Very Good
Condición de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket