Brian P. Cooper is an independent scholar whose research explores the boundaries of economics past and present. His publications include Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859 (2007), and "Social Classifications, Social Statistics and the ‘Facts’ of ‘Difference’ in Economics", in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (2003).

"Brian Cooper unearths the hitherto neglected connections between economics and travel writing to successfully shed fresh light on each of these arenas. The book is an important addition to our knowledge of the history of political economy" Robert J. Mayhew, Dept. of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

• 1 Introduction2 "Instructions for Travellers"3 Travels with Malthus: the population principle in the field4 Travelers in search of Malthus’s "authenticated facts": the case of Ireland5 Travel accounts of Spanish America and British political economy, circa 1800–18236 "To Give this Country its True Value": British Travelers in La Plata and Chile, and the Financial Crisis of 1825–67 Travels with Harriet Martineau

Brian P. Cooper is an independent scholar whose research explores the boundaries of economics past and present. His publications include Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798–1859 (2007), and "Social Classifications, Social Statistics and the ‘Facts’ of ‘Difference’ in Economics", in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (2003).

"Brian Cooper unearths the hitherto neglected connections between economics and travel writing to successfully shed fresh light on each of these arenas. The book is an important addition to our knowledge of the history of political economy" Robert J. Mayhew, Dept. of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK

• 1 Introduction2 "Instructions for Travellers"3 Travels with Malthus: the population principle in the field4 Travelers in search of Malthus’s "authenticated facts": the case of Ireland5 Travel accounts of Spanish America and British political economy, circa 1800–18236 "To Give this Country its True Value": British Travelers in La Plata and Chile, and the Financial Crisis of 1825–67 Travels with Harriet Martineau