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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• 5: Why the Laws Were Repealed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

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.