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Description Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of national industry; chiefly intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries, of Scotland. James Anderson. Volume 1, Dublin, 1779. Printed for S. Price, W. and H. Whitestone, J. Williams, etc. Volumes I and II bound into one. Quarter leather and marbled boards. lxvii, 424pp. Gilt bands on spine with gilt title on red. This is the first Irish edition of "Observations ..." which was originally published in Edinburgh in 1777. The work contains one of the earliest critiques of Smith's "Wealth of Nations". Condition Some scuffing to leather; a section on front scraped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Pages tight, crisp, and bright. Very good. About this book Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of national industry; chiefly intended to promote the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and fisheries, of Scotland. James Anderson FRSE FSA(Scot) (1739 – 15 October 1808) was a Scottish agriculturist, journalist and economist. A member of the Edinburgh Philosophical Society, Anderson was a prominent figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He invented the Scotch plough. Some historians believe Anderson was the root source for Marx's critique of capitalist agriculture. In 1777 Anderson published An Enquiry into the Nature of the Corn Laws in which he introduced what was to become the Malthusian/Ricardian theory of rent. In Marx's view, Anderson's original model was far superior to the variant later offered by the classical economists Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo since it placed strong emphasis on the possibility of continuing agricultural improvement. Anderson published his two most famous tracts in 1777, the Observations and the Inquiry, in which he introduced the differential theory of rent based on the extensive margin.
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