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LONGFIELD ( Mountifort ). Lectures on political economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas terms

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LONGFIELD ( Mountifort ). Lectures on political economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas terms

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
LONGFIELD ( Mountifort ). Lectures on political economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas terms, 1833. Dublin : William Curry, Jun. and Company. Longman and Company, London, 1834FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 267, bound without the half-title - there no evidence that it was ever bound in, 8vo, original cloth-backed paper boards, with printed paper spine label : the binding stained and worn, lacking practically all of the paper from the boards, the spine label rubbed but intact and legible, the binding itself strong, internally in very good to nice state. Longfield (1802–84), Cork-born jurist and economist. His former position as the first incumbent of the first chair of political economy to be founded in Ireland received little or no mention in his obituaries — not surprisingly, for he had left the chair almost half a century earlier; it was a forgotten interlude in a long and distinguished legal career. Almost twenty years later, in 1903, the American economist E. R. A. Seligman published two articles in the Economic Journal, ‘On some neglected British economists’, which drew attention, among others, to the work of Longfield as evidenced in the three volumes which he published during his tenure of the Whately chair : Lectures on Political Economy, Four Lectures on Poor Laws, and, Three Lectures on Commerce and one on Absenteeism (1834–5). Since then it has come to be recognized by economists throughout the world that in these lectures Longfield produced work of outstanding originality, and his posthumous reputation in economics eclipsed that which he had in his own lifetime as a jurist ( ODNB).ECONOMICS; POLITICAL SCIENCE; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;