This volume presents commissioned essays on important, but often neglected. English and Irish economists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Notable chapters include Samuel Hollander’s extended
essay on Samuel Bailey that complements his magisterial reassessement of the classical economists and John Pullen’s assessment of John Cazenove’s analysis of Say’s Law and bank credit. These
are but two members of a brave army of heretics and subversives who could most admirably be summed up in Keynes’ words as those `who following their intuitions, have preferred to see truth
obscurely and imperfectly rather than to maintain error’. This volume aims to bring much needed attention to those forgotten political economists who helped to shape the development of economic
theory and policy.
