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Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy

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  • John R. McCulloch, detail of an oil painting by Sir Daniel Macnee; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
    In John R. McCulloch

    McCulloch’s Discourse on the Rise, Progress, Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy (1824) has been considered the first formal history of economic thought. His annotated editions of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1828) and of Works of David Ricardo (1846) and his bibliographic work, The…

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