Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-28T09:01:20.700Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

RICARDO’S SIDE OF THE MALTHUS PAPERS IN THE COLLECTION OF KANTO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2020

Christophe Depoortère
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

In 1997 and 2004, John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry published a set of manuscripts by and relating to Thomas Robert Malthus held at the Kanto Gakuen University in Japan. Their achievement is impressive. However, a few important elements relating to these manuscripts escaped their attention. These elements concern Malthus, but also his very good friend and theoretical opponent David Ricardo. The purpose of this article is to point out these elements inasmuch as they enable 1) the establishment of the correct dating and contextualization of some manuscripts, and 2) the attribution of the true authorship of some other material.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 483 - 505
Copyright
© The History of Economics Society, 2020

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

Christophe Depoortère: Université de la Réunion. I am very much indebted to Jun-ichi Matsudaira, the chairman of the Kanto Gakuen, and to Toru Haneda, the director of the Kanto Gakuen University Library, for allowing me to examine Malthus’s manuscripts. I would also like to sincerely thank Keiji Kunikata and Satoyuki Yamane (Kanto Gakuen University), Susumu Takenaga (Daito Bunka University), and Masashi Izumo (Kanagawa University) for their assistance in establishing contacts with the administration of the Kanto Gakuen University. I am very grateful to Ghislain Deleplace, who commented extensively on early drafts of this article, and to the participants of the “International Workshop on Classical Monetary Theory” organized by Yuji Sato at Rikkyo University on 14 and 15 March 2019, where a first version of this article was presented. I take full responsibility for any remaining shortcomings.

References

REFERENCES

Bonar, James. 1924. Malthus and His Work. Second edition. London: Allen & Unwin.Google Scholar
Chipman, John Somerset. 2008. The Theory of International Trade. Volume 1. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar.Google Scholar
Ciccone, Roberto, and Trabucchi, Paolo. 2015. “Corn Model.” In Kurz, Heinz D. and Salvadori, Neri, eds., The Elgar Companion to David Ricardo. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, pp. 92–104.Google Scholar
Deleplace, Ghislain. 2017. Ricardo on Money: A Reappraisal. Abingdon: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[Empson, William.] 1837. “Life, Writings and Character of Mr. Malthus.” Edinburgh Review 64: 469–506.Google Scholar
Hollander, Samuel. 2004. “T.R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University.” EH.NET. https://eh.net/book_reviews/t-r-malthus-the-unpublished-papers-in-the-collection-of-kanto-gakuen-university/. Accessed July 19, 2020.Google Scholar
House of Commons. 1810. Report together with Minutes of Evidences, and Accounts, from the select Committee appointed to inquire into the Cause of the High Price of Gold Bullion, and to take into Consideration the State of the Circulating Medium, and of the Exchanges between Great Britain and foreign Parts. London: Taylor.Google Scholar
House of Lords. 1819. Reports by the Lords Committees appointed a Secret Committee to inquire into the State of the Bank of England, with Reference to the Expediency of the Resumption of Cash Payments; with Minutes of Evidence and an Appendix. In The Sessional Papers printed by Order of The House of Lords (1844) 8: 1–468.Google Scholar
Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1811. “Depreciation of Paper Currency.” Edinburgh Review 17: 340–372.Google Scholar
Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1836. The Principles of Political Economy, Considered with a View to Their Practical Application. Second edition. London: Murray.Google Scholar
Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1997–2004. T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University. Two volumes. Edited by Pullen, John M. and Parry, Trevor Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Petersen, William. 1998. “T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, Vol. I by T. Robert Malthus, John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry.” Population and Development Review 24 (2): 395–397.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Porta, Pier-Luigi. 1999. “John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry (eds). T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Society Vol. I, 1997.” The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 6: 312–314.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pullen, John M. 1982. “Malthus on the Doctrine of Proportions and the Concept of the Optimum.” Australian Economic Papers 21: 270–285.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pullen, John M.. 1987. “A Major Discovery of Malthus Manuscripts.” History of Economics Review 8: 40–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ricardo, David. 1951–1973. The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. Eleven volumes. Edited by Sraffa, Piero, with the collaboration of Maurice Herbert Dobb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Watarai, Katsuyoshi. 1999. “John. M. Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry (eds.): T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University, Vol. I, Cambridge University Press, 1997, xxiv+140p.” Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought 37: 187–188.Google Scholar
Waterman, Anthony Michael Charles. 2006a. “J. M. Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry (Eds) T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 28: 507–509.Google Scholar
Waterman, Anthony Michael Charles. 2006b. “New Light on Malthus: The Kanto Gakuen Collection.” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 24-A: 141–151.CrossRefGoogle Scholar