Book ; Online: British Economists and the Empire
(Routledge Library Editions: The History of Economic Thought)
2017
Abstract: a) The Australian Gold Discoveries -- (b) Colonisation and Colonial Government -- Henry Fawcett: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Economics -- (3) Principles of Political Economy and the.Empire: -- (a) Australia -- (b) On Emigration -- (c) India -- (i) ... ...
| Series title | Routledge Library Editions: The History of Economic Thought |
|---|---|
| Abstract | (a) The Australian Gold Discoveries -- (b) Colonisation and Colonial Government -- Henry Fawcett: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Economics -- (3) Principles of Political Economy and the.Empire: -- (a) Australia -- (b) On Emigration -- (c) India -- (i) Published Material -- (ii) Parliamentary Questions -- (4) Conclusion -- Notes -- SECTION THREE: MAINSTREAM ECONOMICS, 1870-1914 -- Chapter 6: Economic Orthodoxy: W S Jevons, Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Marshall -- W S Jevons: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Jevons in Australia -- (3) Emigration -- (4) Colonial Gold Discoveries -- (5) Free Trade and the Threat to British Industrial Supremacy -- (6) Conclusion -- Henry Sidgwick: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Emigration, Colonisation and Imperial Expansion -- (3) Advantages and Disadvantages of Expansion -- (4) Conclusion -- Alfred Marshall: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Economics and the Empire: -- (a) The Self-Governing Colonies -- (b) Imperial Trade, Capital and the Self-Governing Colonies -- (c) India -- (3) Free Trade, Protection, Imperial Preference and the 1903 Fiscal Controversy -- (4) Advantages and Disadvantages of Imperial Conquests -- (5) Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Classical Tradition: J S Nicholson and the Rehabilitation of Adam Smith: Sir Robert Giffen, Master Statistician -- J S Nicholson: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Evolution of Empire -- (3) The Self-Governing Colonies: -- (a) Labour -- (b) Capital and Trade -- (4) Colonial Protectionism and Intra- Empire Free Trade -- (5) Imperial Federation and "A Project of Empire" -- (6) Conclusion -- Sir Robert Giffen: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Statistics and the Empire: -- (a) Size and Population -- (b) Trade and Finance -- (3) Free Trade, Preference and the Empire -- (4) Conclusion -- Notes -- SECTION FOUR: ALTERNATIVES TO ORTHODOX ECONOMICS Chapter 8: William James Ashley and William Cunningham: English Economic Historians -- William James Ashley: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) England's Commercial Legislation and the American Colonies -- (3) The Tariff Problem and the 1903 Fiscal Controversy -- (4) Tariff Reform, 1903-1914 -- (5) The Political Unification of the Empire -- (6) Conclusion -- William Cunningham: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Empire: Conception, Evolution, Colonisation and Imperialism -- (3) The Economic and Political Unification of the Empire -- (4) Civilisation, Religious Duty and the Empire -- (5) Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: W A S Hewins: The Self-Acclaimed Imperialist -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Always a Protectionist? -- (3) The 'Anonymous Economist' and the 1903 Fiscal Controversy -- (4) Tariff Reform, 1903-1914 -- (5) Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 10: J A Hobson: The Self-Confessed Heretic -- (1) Introduction -- (2) The 'Economic Heretic' -- (a) Economics -- (b) Philosophy -- (3) The Economic Theory of Imperialism: -- (a) Origins -- (b) Disutility of Empire: -- (i) Population -- (ii) Trade -- (iii) Solutions to Imperialism -- (iv) Reactions to Imperialism: A Study -- (4) Costs and Benefits of Empire: -- (a) Threat to World Peace -- (b) Absorption of Lower Races -- (c) General Benefits -- (5) The Political and Economic Unification of the Empire: -- (a) Imperial Federation -- (b) Imperial Preference -- (6) Conclusion -- Notes -- SECTION FIVE: CONCLUSION -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Notes -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- (1) Aims and Procedure -- (2) The Selected Economists -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Classical Economists and the Empire, 1776-1860 -- (1) Classical Economics, Empire and Free Trade -- (2) Classical Economics, Empire and the Malthusian Theory of Population -- (3) J S Mill and the Classical Heritage on Empire -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Economic Stage, 1860-1914 -- (1) The Period of Neo-Classical Economics: A Summary -- (2) Brief overview of British Expansion and Economic Facts Associated with Empire, 1860-1914 -- (a) Emigration -- (b) Trade and Investment, 1860-1914 -- (3) Schemes for the Economic and Political Unification of the Empire: -- (a) Imperial Preference -- (b) Imperial Federation -- (4) The Framework of British Imperial History in the Nineteenth Century: -- (a) The Traditional Framework -- (b) The New Framework -- Notes -- SECTION TWO: THE SHADOW OF J S MILL: THE 1860s ECONOMISTS -- Chapter 4: J S Mill's Critics: Goldwin Smith and J E T Rogers -- Goldwin Smith: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Economic Disutiiity of Empire: Trade and Emigration -- (3) The General Costs and Benefits of the Colonial Connection -- (4) Imperial Federation and the Union of Anglo-Saxonism -- (5) India -- (6) Conclusion -- J E T Rogers: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Politics and Economics -- (3) On Empire and Colonisation -- (4) Emigration, Capital and Trade -- (5) Protectionism in the Colonies -- (6) The Disutility of Empire -- (7) The Utility of Empire -- (8) India -- (9) Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: J S Mill's Admirers: J E Cairnes and Henry Fawcett -- J E Cairnes: -- (1) Introduction -- (2) Principles of Political Economy |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 Online-Ressource (322 pages) |
| Document type | Book ; Online |
| ISBN | 9781138230712 ; 9781315316949 ; 9781138230712 ; 1138230715 ; 1315316943 ; 1138230715 |
| Database | ECONomics Information System |
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