Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PROLOGUE: The governing science: things political and the intellectual historian
- I The system of the North: Dugald Stewart and his pupils
- II Higher maxims: happiness versus wealth in Malthus and Ricardo
- III The cause of good government: Philosophic Whigs versus Philosophic Radicals
- IV The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method
- V Sense and circumstances: Bagehot and the nature of political understanding
- VI All that glitters: political science and the lessons of history
- VII The clue to the maze: the appeal of the Comparative Method
- VIII Particular polities: political economy and the historical method
- IX The ordinary experience of civilised life: Sidgwick and the method of reflective analysis
- X A separate science: polity and society in Marshall's economics
- XI A place in the syllabus: political science at Cambridge
- EPILOGUE: A nebulous province: the science of politics in the early twentieth century
- Index
VIII - Particular polities: political economy and the historical method
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PROLOGUE: The governing science: things political and the intellectual historian
- I The system of the North: Dugald Stewart and his pupils
- II Higher maxims: happiness versus wealth in Malthus and Ricardo
- III The cause of good government: Philosophic Whigs versus Philosophic Radicals
- IV The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method
- V Sense and circumstances: Bagehot and the nature of political understanding
- VI All that glitters: political science and the lessons of history
- VII The clue to the maze: the appeal of the Comparative Method
- VIII Particular polities: political economy and the historical method
- IX The ordinary experience of civilised life: Sidgwick and the method of reflective analysis
- X A separate science: polity and society in Marshall's economics
- XI A place in the syllabus: political science at Cambridge
- EPILOGUE: A nebulous province: the science of politics in the early twentieth century
- Index
Summary
Every branch of the philosophy of society, morals and political economy not excepted, needs investigation and development by historical induction; and … not only the moral and economic condition of society, but its moral and economic theories and ideas, are the results of the course of national history and the state of national culture.
t. e. cliffe leslie, Essays in Political and Moral Philosophy (1879)If we are to have a body of doctrine which lays down maxims in regard to the pursuit of wealth, this body of doctrine can only be a Political Economy, not a cosmopolitan Economic Science, for it must devote its attention to the particular needs and ambitions of a particular polity, and can only indicate the means to procure wealth-as-conceived and wealth-as-desired by that nation at that time, not wealth in general.
william cunningham, Politics and Economics (1885)‘we Englishmen pass on the continent as masters of the art of government; yet it may be doubted whether, even among us, the science, which corresponds to that art, is not very much in the condition of political economy before Adam Smith took it in hand.’
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- That Noble Science of PoliticsA Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History, pp. 247 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1983
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