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• Preface
• The Manchester School of Economics
• Introduction: Manchester Revisited
• 1: What the School Was
• 2: The Economists and the School
• 3: The Corn Laws
• 4: The Campaign For Repeal
• 5: Why the Laws Were Repealed
• 6: The School After Repeal
• Bibliography
• I.: The School, Its Leaders, and the Ideas
• II.: The Repeal Campaign
• The League
• The Struggle
• III.: The Period, the People, and Their Ideas
• The Economist
• The Non-conformist
• IV.: The Economists On the Corn Laws

III.

THE PERIOD, THE PEOPLE, AND THEIR IDEAS

• The Annual Register. London, 1835-65.
• Ashley, A. E. M. Life and Correspondence of H. J. Temple, Viscount Palmerston. 2 vols. London, 1879.
• Barnes, Donald Grove. A History of the English Corn Laws from 1660-1846. New York, 1930.
• Barton, John. An Enquiry into the Expediency of the Existing Restrictions on the Importation of Foreign Corn. London, 1833.
• Bastiat, Frederic. Harmonies of Political Economy. Translated by P. J. Stirling. 2d ed. Edinburgh [1880].
• ———. What is Seen and What is not Seen: or Political Economy in One Lesson. Translated by W. B. Hodgson. London, 1859.
• Bisset, Andrew. Notes on the Anti-Corn Law Struggle. London, 1884.
• Brebner, J. Bartlet. “Laissez Faire and State Intervention in Nineteenth Century Britain,” Journal of Economic History. Supplement VIII (1948), 59-73.
• Broughton, Lord (John Cam Hobhouse). Recollections of a Long Life. 6 vols. London, 1910-11.
• Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. Chicago, n.d.
• ———. Past and Present. Chicago, n.d.
• Croker, J. W. The Croker Papers. Etc. Edited by Louis J. Jennings. 2 vols. New York, 1884.
• Dicey, A. V. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England During the Nineteenth Century. London, 1905.
• Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord George Bentinck. 3d ed. London, 1852.
• Easby, John. Manchester and the Manchester People, etc. Manchester, 1843.

The Economist

• Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844. Translated by Florence Kelley Wishnewetzky. London, 1892.
• Fay, C. R. The Corn Laws and Social England. Cambridge, 1932.
• Fetter, Frank Whitson. “The Authorship of Economic Articles in the Edinburgh Review, 1802-47,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 61, No. 3 (June 1953), pp. 232-59.
• ———. “Economic Articles in the Quarterly Review and their Authors, 1809-52,” ibid., Vol. 66, No. 1 (Feb. 1958), pp. 47-64; No. 2 (April 1958), pp. 154-70.
• Gammage, R. G. History of the Chartist Movement. London, 1894.
• Garnett, Richard. The Life of W. J. Fox. London, 1910.
• Gayer, Arthur D., W. W. Rostow, and Anna Jacobson Schwartz, with the assistance of Isaiah Frank. The Growth and Fluctuations of the British Economy 1790-1850. 2 vols. Oxford, 1953.
• Gordon, Scott. “The London Economist and the High Tide of Laissez Faire,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 63, No. 6 (Dec. 1955), pp. 461-88.
• Greville, Charles C. F. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV, King William IV, and Queen Victoria. Edited by Henry Reeve. 8 vols. London, 1888.
• Gwynn, D. R. Daniel O’Connell, the Irish Liberator. London, 1929.
• Halévy, Elie. The Age of Peel and Cobden. Translated by E. I. Watkin. London, 1947.
• ———. The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism. Translated by Mary Morris. London, 1928.
• Hammond, J. L., and Barbara Hammond. The Age of the Chartists 1832-1854. London, 1930.
• ———. Lord Shaftesbury. 2d ed. London, 1923.
• ———. The Town Labourer, 1760-1832. London, 1917.
• Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates. London, 1835-65.
• Harwood, Philip. Six Lectures on the Corn Law Monopoly and Free Trade. London, 1843.
• Henderson, Gavin B. “The Pacifists of the Fifties,” Journal of Modern History, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Sept. 1937), pp. 314-41.
• Henderson, W. O., and W. H. Chaloner. “Friederich Engels in Manchester,” Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1956-57, Vol. 98. Manchester, 1957.
• Hodder, Edwin. The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. 3 vols. London, 1888.
• Holyoake, H. J. Sixty Years of an Agitator’s Life. London, 1892.
• Hutchins, B. L., and A. Harrison. A History of Factory Legislation. 3d ed. London, 1926.
• Jacob, William. Considerations on the Protection Required by British Agriculture, etc. London, 1814.
• Jeans, Victorine. Factory Act Legislation. London, 1892.
• Kydd, Samuel (“Alfred”). The History of the Factory Movementfrom the Year 1802, to the Enactment of the Ten Hours’ Bill in 1847. 2 vols. London, 1857.
• MacGregor, D. H. Economic Thought and Policy. London, 1949.
• Magnus, Sir Philip. Gladstone—A Biography. London, 1954.
• Martineau, Harriet. The History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace: 1816-46. 2 vols. London, 1849.
• Marx, Karl. Capital. 3 vols. Chicago, 1907-9.
• ———, and Friederich Engels. Correspondence 1846-1895. London, 1934.
• Mayer, Gustav. Friederich Engels. London, 1936.
• Mints, Lloyd W. A History of Banking Theory in Great Britain and the United States. Chicago, 1945.
• Monypenny, W. F., and G. E. Buckle. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli. 6 vols. New York, 1910-20.
• Morley, John. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. New York, 1932.
• Muntz, G. F. Letters upon Corn and Currency, etc. Birmingham, 1841.

The Non-Conformist

• Page, William, ed. Commerce and Industry. Tables of Statistics for the British Empire from 1815. London, 1919.
• Parker, C. S., ed. Sir Robert Peel from his Private Papers. 3 vols. London, 1891-99.
• The Place Collection. Uncatalogued clippings, pamphlets, letters, etc. British Museum.
• Place, Francis. Political Correspondence. Vol. 4. MS. 35151. British Museum.
• The Political Economy Club. Minutes of Proceedings, 1821-1882, Rolls of Members, and Questions Discussed. Vol. 4. London, 1882.
• Political Economy Club. Names of Members 1821-1860:—Rules of the Club:—And List of Questions Discussed, 1833-1860. [Vol. 1] London, 1860.
• Political Economy Club. Names of Members 1821-1872:—Rules of the Club:—And List of Questions Discussed, 1860-1872: Vol. II. In Continuation of Volume I Published in 1860, etc. London, 1882.
• A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith, drawn from his letters and diaries and introduced by John Russell. [London, n.d.].
• Proceedings at the Fourth Monthly Soiree of the National Reform Association . . . May 26, 1851. National Reform Tracts, Nos. 21-24. London, n.d.
• Ramsay, A. A. W. Sir Robert Peel. New York, 1928.
• Report from the Select Committee on the “Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children in Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom.” [House of Commons] Session 1831-32. Vol. 15 [London, n.d.].
• Report of Minutes in Evidence Taken by the Select Committee on the State of Children Employed in the Manufactories of the United Kingdom. [House of Commons] Session 1816. Vol. 3. London, 1816.
• Rostow, W. W. “Business Cycles, Harvests, and Politics: 1790-1850,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 1, No. 2 Nov. 1941), pp. 206-21.
• Ruskin, John. The Crown of Wild Olive. New York, n.d.
• ———. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Vol. 7. London, 1877.
• ———. Munera Pulveris. Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy. New York, 1882.
• ———. “Unto This Last:” Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. New York, 1883.
• Russell, Lord John. Recollections and Suggestions, 1813-1873. London, 1875.
• Senior, N. W. Historical and Philosophical Essays. 2 vols. London, 1865.
• ———. Letters on the Factory Act, As It Affects Cotton Manufacture. 2d ed. London, 1844.
• Smart, William. Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century. 2 vols. London, 1910, 1917.
• Spencer, Herbert. The Man versus the State. London, 1884. 1884.
• Tucker, Rufus S. “Real Wages of Artisans in London, 1729-1835,” Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 31, No. 193 (March 1936), pp. 73-84.
• Wade, John. Digest of Facts and Principles on Banking and Commerce with a Plan for Preventing Further Reactions. London, 1826.
• Young, G. M., ed. Early Victorian England, 1830-65. 2 vols. London, 1934.