Week 10: The emergence of Political Economy [pdf] / timeline diagram [pdf]
Primary reading
* Backhouse, R (2002), The Penguin History of Economics, London: Penguin books [ch6-7]
* Backhouse, R and Tribe, K (2014), Economic ideas and the emergence of political economy, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 1 1700-1870, Cambridge: CUP [pp421-442]
Formaini, RL (2002), Adam Smith – Capitalism’s prophet, Economic Insights, v7 no.1
Formaini, RL (2004), David Ricardo – Theory of international free trade, Economic Insights, v9 no.2
Background
Wikipedia entries on Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, the Corn Laws, JB Say, JS Mill, William Jevons
Elliot, L (2019), Tories face a Corn Law moment, but catharsis is nowhere in sight, The Guardian, April 7th
INET (2012), D’Maris Coffman — The Corn Laws: Seeing through the Eyes of Ricardo and Malthus [interview], Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oct 16th -> about this project: Corn Returns Online
Knapton, S (2017), Severed head of eccentric Jeremy Bentham to go on display as scientists test DNA to see if he was autistic, The Telegraph, Oct 2nd
Library of Economics and Liberty (2008) – Adam Smith, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Milton, A (2019), Mariana Mazzucato Has Reinvigorated The Most Important Battle In Economics, Palladium, Nov 21st
Panmure House (2013), Adam Smith, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
Preceden.com history of economics timeline <- very useful for overview