First published 1827
Definitions in Political Economy
Definitions in Political Economy by Thomas Robert Malthus is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- First published
- 1827
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 147
- Publisher
- London: John Murray, 1827; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
A book of 1827 in which Malthus criticizes the terminology of Ricardo, Say, McCulloch, and others and proposes his own fixed definitions of some seventy economic terms. Its central complaint is that disputes in the science often turn on loose or shifting words, above all the meaning of value, and it shows how the classical economists argued about method.
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24 chapters · 47,912 words · free to read here
- CONTENTS.
- PREFACE.
- Chapter I.: RULES FOR THE DEFINITION AND APPLICATION OF TERMS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY.
- Chapter II.: ON THE DEFINITION OF WEALTH BY THE FRENCH ECONOMISTS.
- Chapter III.: ON THE DEFINITION AND APPLICATION OF TERMS BY ADAM SMITH.
- Chapter IV.: APPLICATION OF THE TERM UTILITY BY M. SAY.
- Chapter V.: ON THE DEFINITION AND APPLICATION OF TERMS BY MR. RICARDO.
- Chapter VI.: ON THE DEFINITION AND APPLICATION OF TERMS BY MR. MILL, IN HIS “ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.”
- Chapter VII.: ON THE DEFINITION AND APPLICATION OF TERMS, BY MR. MACCULLOCH, IN HIS “PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.”
- Chapter VIII.: ON THE DEFINITION AND USE OF TERMS BY THE AUTHOR OF “A CRITICAL DISSERTATION ON THE NATURE, MEASURE, AND CAUSES OF VALUE.”
- Chapter IX.: SUMMARY OF THE REASONS FOR ADOPTING THE SUBJOINED DEFINITION OF THE MEASURE OF VALUE.
- UTILITY.
- VALUE, OR VALUE IN EXCHANGE.
- UNPRODUCTIVE LABOUR.
- THE PRICE OF EFFECTIVE LABOUR.
- CONDITIONS OF THE SUPPLY OF COMMODITIES.
- THE VALUE, MARKET VALUE, OR ACTUAL VALUE, OF A COMMODITY AT ANY PLACE OR TIME.
- EXCESS OF THE DEMAND ABOVE THE SUPPLY.
- EXCESS OF THE SUPPLY ABOVE THE DEMAND, OR PARTIAL GLUT.
- A GIVEN DEMAND.
- Chapter XI.: OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEFINITIONS.
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