Front Page Titles (by Subject) John Ramsay McCulloch

John Ramsay McCulloch

1789 - 1864

About the Author

John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) was the leader of the Ricardian school following the death of Ricardo. He was a pioneer in the collection of economic statistics and was the first professor of political economy at the University of London in 1828. [The image comes from “The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.”]

In The Library:

• author: A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce from the Originals of Mun, Roberts, North, and Others (1856)
• editor: A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money (1856)
• author: Treatises and Essays on Subjects connected with Economic Policy with Biographical Sketches of Quesnay, Adam Smith & Ricardo (1853)
• introduction: The Works of David Ricardo (McCulloch ed.) (1846)

Quotations:

• John Ramsay McCulloch argues that smuggling is “wholly the result of vicious commercial and financial legislation” and that it could be ended immediately by abolishing this legislation (1899) (11 May, 2009)