Popular Political Economy
About this Collection
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).
Members:
- The Anti-capitalistic Mentality (Ludwig von Mises)
- Armonias Economicas (Frédéric Bastiat)
- The Best of Bastiat (Frédéric Bastiat)
- Can Capitalism Survive? (Benjamin A. Rogge)
- Conversations on Political Economy (Jane Haldimand Marcet)
- Economic Harmonies (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
- Economic Sophisms (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
- Essays (Glamorgan Pamphlets) (Jane Haldimand Marcet)
- The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics (David R. Henderson)
- Free Trade: America’s Opportunity (Leland B. Yeager)
- Fugitive Essays: Selected Writings of Frank Chodorov (Frank Chodorov)
- “I, Pencil: My Family Tree” as told to Leonard E. Read, Dec. 1958 (Leonard E. Read)
- Illustrations of Political Economy 9 vols. (Harriet Martineau)
- Illustrations of Taxation (1-5) (Harriet Martineau)
- John Hopkins’s Notions on Political Economy (Jane Haldimand Marcet)
- Popular Political Economy. Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (Thomas Hodgskin)
- Selected Essays on Political Economy (FEE ed.) (Frédéric Bastiat)
- Self Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (Samuel Smiles)
- Taxation and Work: A Series of Treatises on the Tariff and the Currency (Edward Atkinson)