A History of Political Economy

John K. Ingram

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139381963

Living most of his life in Dublin, John Kells Ingram (1823–1907) published papers on Shakespeare, geometry, differential calculus, and Mexican antiques, held professorial chairs in English Literature and Greek, and in 1843 wrote 'The Memory of the Dead', a celebrated Irish nationalist hymn. He helped to found the Dublin Statistical Society in 1847, and from the 1860s began to write papers such as 'Work and the Workman', reflecting his adherence to the positivist sociology of Auguste Comte. He saw economics as an integral part of sociology which, through practical application, could contribute towards the betterment of humanity. Published in 1888, A History of Political Economy was hugely successful, being translated into ten languages. In it, Ingram expands on the historicist rejection of laissez-faire and free trade as being universally correct, and promotes the notion that the state can play a constructive role in improving the lives of its people.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

PREFACTORY NOTE
pp vii-x

CHAP. I - INTRODUCTORY
pp 1-6

CHAP. II - ANCIENT TIMES
pp 7-23

CHAP. III - THE MIDDLE AGES
pp 24-31

CHAP. IV - MODERN TIMES: FIRST AND SECOND PHASES
pp 32-54

CHAP. V - THIRD MODERN PHASE: SYSTEM OF NATURAL LIBERTY
pp 55-195

CHAP. VI - THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL
pp 196-239

CHAP. VII - CONCLUSION
pp 240-246

INDEX
pp 247-250

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