The Political Economy of Robert Lowe

ISBN-13: 9781403947826 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 188 str.

John Maloney

Opis

Robert Lowe's wit and brilliance made him one of the most admired and detested figures of the Victorian age. But he was also the only classical economist to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and this is the first study of him by a fellow economist. It shows how as Chancellor he caused a riot with his proposed match tax and hankered to take Britain into a single European currency.

Recenzje

'Maloney both rescues Lowe from the worst caricatures of his political economy and conveys something of the excitement and significance of how an earlier age confronted the cardinal choice of government or market as they adapted to and forged the latest stage in the development of capitalism and democracy.' - Roger Middleton, Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 28, Number 4, December 2006

Spis treści

Go Out and Govern New South Wales The Limits to Laissez-Faire Trade and Treaties Education, Education, Administration Shedding Daylight on the Unions What Shall We Do for Ireland? Democratic Economics or Gladstonian Finance? Saying No The Chancellor Meets His Match Joining the 'Europe' and Shrinking the Pound Beer, Bankruptcy and Empire Pig Philosophy? Vapulo, Veneo, Exulo, Fio Notes Bibliography

O autorze

JOHN MALONEY is a Reader in Economics at Exeter University, UK.