Essays (Glamorgan Pamphlets)
These economic fairy tales and parables published by Jane Marcet in the 1830s charm with their light-hearted wit. In language less difficult than that of Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and Mill, she illustrates such topics as the economics of wages and income distribution. The John Hopkins series reprinted and expanded on the popular earlier Glamorgan Essays. Marcet originally earned her fame by writing about chemistry for the layman (in the process influencing Michael Faraday), and branched out with equal success to other fields, including primarily economics.
Pamphlet Essays: Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Improvement of the Working Population in the County of Glamorgan, vol. 8-11 (Cardiff: W. Bird, Duke-Street, 1831).
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- Author: Jane Haldimand Marcet
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- STORY THE FIRST. The Rich and The Poor.
- A Fairy Tale.
- STORY THE SECOND. Wages.
- Another Fairy Tale.
- THIRD STORY. Population:
- or Patty's Marriage.
- FOURTH STORY. The Poor's Rate:
- or The Treacherous Friend.
- FIFTH STORY. Foreign Trade:
- or The Wedding Gown.
- Second Part
- Third Part