Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Reader 1
Gary Kates
Reader 2
Samuel H. Yamashita
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Abstract
This thesis examines the political economy of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale (1759-1839), a Scottish peer. Using Lauderdale's notes on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, his 1804 book An Inquiry into the Nature and Origins of Public Wealth, and his debate with Henry Brougham in the Edinburgh Review, the thesis argues that Lauderdale pushed the field of political economy in a direction more focused on public welfare and anticipated problems that would later be tackled by the marginal utility theorists of the late 19th century.
Recommended Citation
Alvis, Michael, "Visible Hands: The Earl of Lauderdale's Political Economy in the History of Economic Thought" (2020). Pomona Senior Theses. 292.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/292
