Sir William James Ashley

1860 - 1927

About the Author

Ashley was a prolific economic historian who wrote on the English coal industry, the British empire, German economic history, tariffs, and edited an important edition of Mill’s Principles of Political Economy.

In The Library:

• editor: Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy (Ashley ed.) (1848)
• translator: Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches (1898 ed.) (1770)