Economic essays

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Identifikator:: 1753623200

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Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Economic essays

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Macmillan

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: viii, 368 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The malthusiad fantasia economica / James Bonar

Collection:: Economics Books

24 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK previously (1833) joined with all the talents to found the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which still remem- bers you in its Biological and Economic sections. You were no ardent politician, but you must have triumphed with the rest of the Whigs when the Reform Bill passed in 1832. You will hardly care to know that in your own country reform has gone farther since then, and we are a democracy in everything but the name.” SHADE: “There was certainly comfort in these last years. But surgit amart aliquid; there were some signs of the times that made me uncomfortable. Though it hurts my own feelings I must mention that my checks on population were often redefined for me by people who used my name and authority unadvisedly, including some of the politicians to whom you have referred. As you know, I do not love to dwell on this subject; my check was always moral restraint, and deferment of marriage; with them it is something different.” Y. E.: “Your own successor, sir, Richard Jones, declared that the adjective should be dropped or altered into ‘voluntary.’ ” SHADE: “I was always a little afraid of what would happen if it were dropped, as indeed it was by my friends Place and James Mill and his precocious son. James Mill, like me, was in John Company’s service. You will admit that, like him, I fought valiantly for the company and my college, not without frank criticism. I may venture to say, I was a good friend to my young men in that same college, and though boisterous they were rarely bad, and I think we respected one another.” Y. E.: “Everybody respected you, sir. But the college is gone or rather it is transformed into a public school, and a very good one. It produced some famous men, but after certain disturb- ances in India and changes of policy and plans of selection at home it was doomed to go. As a matter of fact it went before the Company, 1855, largely because of a Report from your friend and champion Macaulay. Professor Monier Williams * speaks from tradition of the delightful evening parties your wife gave to the college, and of your own great amiability and charm of character. You need have no fear on that head. Miss Martineau, Miss Edgeworth, Mackintosh, Sydney Smith, all sang your praises. The banter of the last is not to be mistaken for dislike.” Lt Old Haileybury (Constable, 1894), pp. 198-9.

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