Essays on Classical and Marxian Political Economy

Samuel Hollander's work has been provoking debate for over four decades. This book brings together key contributions of work from recent years, in addition to some brand new pieces. The essays are introduced by a preface, in which Hollander offers reflects on his past work and reactions to it.

Samuel Hollander is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he served on the faculty from 1963 to 1998, and is currently affiliated with the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel. An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor Hollander holds an honorary Doctorate of Laws from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, and was a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France, 1999-2000.

Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Adam Smith 1. Adam Smith: Market-Failure Pioneer, and Champion of 'Natural Liberty' 2. John Rae and Adam Smith (1998) 3. Jeremy Bentham and Adam Smith on the Usury Laws: a 'Smithian' Reply to Bentham and a New Problem (1999) Part II: The Classical Canon: Ricardo, Bailey, Say, and Sraffa 4. The Canonical Classical Growth Model: Content, Adherence and Priority (1998) 5. Samuel Bailey and the Question of his 'Influence': a Sceptical View (2010) 6. Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics: Land-Based Growth Theory (2005) 7. Ricardo as a 'Classical' Economist; the 'New View' Re-examined: a Reply to Dr Peach (2007) 8. The Old 'New View' Reaffirmed: a Truly Final Word? 9. Sraffa in Historiographical Perspective: a Provisional Statement (1998) 10. Reply to Stirati's Comment on my 'Sraffa and the Interpretation of Ricardo: the Marxian Dimension' (2011) Part III: Malthus 11. Malthus and Classical Economics: the Malthus-Ricardo Relationship (2001) 12. Malthus and Method: a Study in Irony (1999) 13. Malthus and the Corn-Profit Model (2000) 14. New Avenues for Research in Malthus Studies; On Hashimoto and Pullen's 'Two Unpublished Letters of Malthus' (2006) 15. An Invited Comment on 'Reappraisal of "Malthus the Economist", 1933-1997' by A.M.C. Waterman (1998) Part IV: Marxian Political Economy 16. Engels-Marx versus Malthus on Distribution and the Population Issue (2003) 17. On the Marxian Entrepreneur: Karl Marx's Abandonment of the Doctrine of Exploitation under Industrial Capitalism (2011) 18. On Karl Marx's Doctrine of Exploitation: a Reply to Critics Part V: Biographical Perspectives 19. John P. Henderson's Life and Economics of David Ricardo (2001) 20. Martin Bronfenbrenner as a Comrade-in-Arms in establishing the 'New Classical Economics' (1999) 21. Continuing a Conversation with Larry Moss (1945-2009) (2010) 22. Afterword: A Memoir Continued