Economic essays

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Identifikator:: 1753623200

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-136107

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

26 ECONOMIC ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JOHN BATES CLARK themselves Eugenists, faintly foreshadowed by you in your quota- tion from the Tatler about Maud the Milkmaid. They would perpetuate good strains of population by inheritance. The quality of the population rightly seems to them more important than the quantity. You were a Utilitarian, Sir, but I seem to remember passages in your Essay showing that Greatest Happiness need not mean greatest numbers, but might be secured by smaller numbers of higher quality. It is open to question whether the great men or the great masses should matter most to a lover of his country.” SHADE: ‘Strange that a small man like me (small in mental stature) should have got a hearing at all, still less should have left his mark on great men and movements. I feel, si parva licet componere magnis, as Shakespere’s Henry VIII must have felt when told of the Great Elizabeth to come after him.” Y. E.: “Measured by influence, Sir, you are not a small man; and like Darwin you have added an adjective to the English language. You are not in Westminster Abbey, for no mere economists are there; but pilgrims have gone to Bath Abbey for your sake.” SHADE: “You speak of influence. Apart from the Essay, I should have thought to survive by a subdued influence on my dear Ricardo and his followers, not by any influence on science at large, still less by public fame. Ricardo was a very brother, and we might have agreed altogether if we had lived long enough together. As it was, he and his followed what I considered devious ways.” Y. E.: “Yes, I remember your solemn indictment of them in the Quarterly Review, 1824; and the course of time has turned the tables on that ‘New Political Economy.” A Classical School, of your type rather than theirs, might have lasted longer than theirs, for theirs cannot be said to have lasted very long.” SHADE: “I think you will find my tables not so easy to turn as theirs. The observers of my rules are on the whole more than the breakers thereof. My warnings against partial remedies for excessive population are probably standing; emigration, for example, and a potato diet did not go to the root of the matter.” Y. E.: “The last had a tragic exposure in an Irish Famine ten years after your death. But the relation of the Classical School to labour was in your system very much what it had been in the

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