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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• 5: Why the Laws Were Repealed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

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.

IV.

THE ECONOMISTS ON THE CORN LAWS

• Blaug, Mark. Ricardian Economics, a Historical Study. New Haven, 1958.
• Cairnes, J. E. Essays in Political Economy. Theoretical and Applied. London, 1873.
• Grampp, William D. “Malthus on Money Wages and Welfare,” American Economic Review, Vol. 46, No. 5 (Dec. 1956), pp. 924-36.
• Horner, Francis. Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. Edited by Leonard Horner. 2 vols. London, 1843.
• Joplin, Thomas. Views on the Subject of Corn and Currency. London, 1826.
• Lauderdale, Earl of. A Letter on the Corn Laws. London, 1814.
• Malthus, Thomas. The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn. London, 1815.
• ———. An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, etc. London, 1815.
• ———. An Investigation of the Cause of the Present High Price of Provisions. 2d ed. London, 1800.
• ———. Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws, etc. 3d ed. London, 1815.
• Marx, Karl. Free Trade, a Speech Delivered before the Democratic Club, Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 9, 1848. Translated by Florence Kelley Wishnewetsky. London, 1892.
• M’Culloch, J. R. “Abolition of the Corn Laws,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 41, No. 81 (Oct. 1824), pp. 55-78.
• ———. “Abolition of the Corn Laws,” ibid., Vol. 44, No. 88 (Sept. 1826), pp. 319-59.
• ———. “Changes Required in the Corn Laws,” ibid., Vol. 58, No. 118 (Jan. 1834), pp. 271-307.
• ———. Statements Illustrative of the Policy and Probable Consequences of the Proposed Repeal of the Existing Corn Laws, etc. 6th ed. London, 1841.
• ———. “Taxation and the Corn Laws,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 33, No. 65 (Jan. 1820), pp. 155-87.
• Mill, James. An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain, etc. London, 1804.
• Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. London, 1891.
• Packe, Michael St. John. The Life of John Stuart Mill. London, 1954.
• Ricardo, David. An Essay on the Influence of a low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock; shewing the inexpediency of restrictions on importation; etc. London, 1815. In The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. Edited by Piero Sraffa and M. H. Dodd. Vol. 4, pp. 9-41. Cambridge, 1951.
• ———. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London, 1929. In Works, Vol. 1.
• ———. On Protection to Agriculture. London, 1822. In Works, Vol. 4, pp. 207-70.
• Rooke, John. Free Trade and Safe Government, etc. London, 1835.
• ———. Free Trade in Corn, etc. 2d ed. London, 1835.
• Senior, N. W. “Report—On the State of Agriculture,” Quarterly Review, Vol. 25, No. 50. (July 1821), pp. 466-504.
• Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. New York, 1937.
• Spence, William. Tracts on Political Economy. London, 1822.
• Thornton, William T. The Consequences of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. London [1841].
• Tooke, Thomas. On the Currency in Connexion with the Corn Trade; etc. 2d ed. London, 1829.
• ———. A History of Prices, and of the State of the Circulation, from 1793 to 1837; etc. 2 vols. London, 1838.
• Torrens, Robert. An Essay on the External Corn Trade. 3d ed. London, 1826.
• ———. A Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Liverpool, on the State of the Agriculture, etc. London, 1816.
• ———. A Letter to Senior, etc. London, 1843.
• West, Sir Edward. Price of Corn and Wages of Labour, etc. London, 1826.