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Topic: Popular Political Economy

The following works were written to explain economic ideas to a popular audience. They span a time frame from the late 1820s, when the expansion of the franchise in Britain required an electorate better informed on economic matters, to the present. The title for this Topic comes from one of the earliest practitioners, the ex-British naval officer Thomas Hodgskin, who delivered a series of 4 lectures in 1827 entitled Popular Political Economy at the London Mechanics Institution (a working class organization which was formed to further the education of its members).

25 Titles in this Group:

authors and editors   title ↑ pub. date  
author: Ludwig von Mises, editor: Bettina Bien Greaves The Anti-capitalist Mentality 1956
author: Benjamin A. Rogge Can Capitalism Survive? 1979
author: Arthur Seldon, editor: Colin Robinson The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon, vol. 1 (The Virtues of Capitalism) 2004
author: Jane Haldemand Marcet Conversations on Political Economy; in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained 1816
author: Frédéric Bastiat, editor: George B. de Huszar, translator: W. Hayden Boyers, introduction: Dean Russell Economic Harmonies (Boyers trans.) 1850
author: Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Arthur Goddard, introduction: Henry Hazlitt Economic Sophisms 1845
author: Jane Haldemand Marcet Essays (Glamorgan Pamphlets) 1831
editor: David R. Henderson The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (Concise Encyclopedia of Economics) 1993
author: Leland B. Yeager Free Trade: America’s Opportunity 1954
author: Frank Chodorov, introduction: Charles H. Hamilton Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov 1980
author: Leonard E. Read, introduction: Milton Friedman “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” as told to Leonard E. Read, Dec. 1958 1958
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy 9 vols. 1832
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 1 (Life in the Wilds, Hill and the Valley, Brooke and Brooke Farm) 1832
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 2 (Demerara, 2 Garveloch tales) 1832
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 3 (Manchester Strike, Cousin Marshall, Ireland) 1832
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 4 (Homes Abroad, For Each and For All, French Wines and Politics) 1834
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 5 (Charmed Sea, Berkeley the Banker Parts 1 & 2) 1834
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 6 (Messrs. Vanderput and Snoek, The Loom and the Lugger Parts 1 & 2) 1834
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 7 (Sowers not Reapers, Cinnamon and Pearls, A Tale of the Tyne) 1834
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 8 (Briery Creek, The Three Ages) 1834
author: Harriet Martineau Illustrations of Political Economy, vol. 9 (The Farrers of Budge-Row, the Moral of Many Fables) 1834
author: Jane Haldemand Marcet John Hopkins’s Notions on Political Economy 1833
author: Thomas Hodgskin Popular Political Economy. Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution 1827
author: Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Seymour Cain, editor: George B. de Huszar, introduction: Friedrich August von Hayek Selected Essays on Political Economy 1848
author: Samuel Smiles Self Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct 1859