Collected Works of Josiah Tucker

ISBN-13: 9780415083065 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 3008 str.

Josiah Tucker

Opis

Josiah Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, was one of the foremost thinkers of 18th-century England in the field of economics, international relations, political theory and imperialism. His publications have been virtually unavailable since their original publication over 200 years ago. These six volumes allow Tucker's lost voice to be heard again in this collected edition of all his important writings on economics and social theory. The Elements of Commerce and Theory of Taxes, written as part of a comprehensive treatise on economics with Tucker, was planned but never completed and is published here for the first time. Written 20 years before The Wealth of Nations, it anticipates classic doctrines of Adam Smith. Further writings of Tucker included are a remarkable tract on war, which foreshadows present-day pacifistic thought, pamphlets on the American Colonies, in which their separation from Great Britain is strongly advocated and a treatise on civil government. The final volume collects and reprints some early source and critical material on Tucker to give further background and aid new research.

Recenzje

`Tucker was a parson and a Tory, but for the rest, an honourable man and a competant political economist.' - Karl Marx Das Kapital

`I look upon [Tucker] to be one of the few excellent writers of the period... No person, however learned, can read his writings without some improvement. He is sure to find something he did not know before.' - Dr Samuel Johnson

Spis treści

Economics and Social Policy I
Economics and Social Policy II
Economics and Social Policy III
Government
Economics and American Colonial Policy
Critical and Biographical Material
Detailed contents available on request.