Corn Laws

Alon Kadish is at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of The Oxford Economists in the Late Nineteenth Century (1982) and joint editor of The Market for Political Economy: The Advent of Economics in British University Culture, 1850-1905 (1993)

'shows not only the diverse motivations driving this massive political alliance, but also the economic "commonsense", or ideology, that went far toward establishing economics as we know it today.' Victorian Studies

• Volume 1: 1. Graham, James Robert George Com and Currency 1826) 2. Rooke, John Free Trade in Com (1828) 3. Earl Fitzwilliam First, Second and Third Addresses on the Com Laws (1839) 4. Earl Fitzwilliam Letter to the Bishop of Peterborough (1840) 5. Childers, J. W. Remarks on the Com Laws (1840) 6. Davis, Hewitt Effects of the Importation of Wheat upon the profits of Farming (1839)Volume II: 1. Salomons, David Operation of the Present Scale of Duty for Regulating the Importation of Foreign Com( 1839) 2. Jevons, Thomas Prosperity of the Landholders not Dependant on the Com Laws (1840) 3. Lord Brougham ‘Speech on moving for a Committee of the House of Commons on the Corn Laws’ (1839) 4. Viscount Howick ‘Speech on the Corn Laws’ (1839) 5. Villiers, C. P. ‘Speech on the Corn Laws’ (1840) 6. O’Connell, Daniel Observations on the Com Laws {1842)Volume III 1. O'Connell, John General Case of Ireland for a Repeal of the Legislative Union (1843) 2. Wilson, James Influences of the Com Laws (1840) 3. Wilson, James Fluctuations of Currency, Commerce and Manufactures referable to the Com Laws (1840) 4. Wilson, James The Economist: Preliminary Number and Prospectus (1843)Volume IV. 1. Report of the Conference of Ministers of All Denominations on the Com Laws (1841) 2. Five Hundred Ministers resident in Scotland The Com Laws Condemned (1842) 3. Anderson, William ‘The Corn and Provision Laws’ (1843) 4. Harvey, Alexander ‘The Influence of the Provision Laws on Trade, Wages, and Society’ (1843)Volume V. 1. Baines, Edward The Moral Influence of Free Trade {1830) 2. Baines, Edward Reasons in Favour of Free Trade in Com (1843) 3. ‘A Manufacturer’ Reciprocity (n.d.) 4. Report in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the Destmctive Effects of the Com Laws (1839) 5. ‘Anglus’ Artisans, Farmers and Labourers (1839) 6. Greg, Robert Hyde ‘Speech on the Corn Laws’ (1840) 7. Greg, William Rathbone Not Over-Production but Deficient Consumption the Source of our Sufferings (1842) 8. Prentice, Archibald The Pitt-Peel Income Tax (1842) 9. Cobden, Richard ‘Alarming Distress’ (1842) 10. Cobden, Richard ‘Speech on the Disturbances in the Manufacturing Districts’ (1842) 11. ‘Q in a Corner’ A Little Common Sense and a Few Facts on Fair Prices and Fair Wages (1830)Volume V.I 1. National Anti Corn Law League ‘Eleven Pamphlets’ (1842-3) 2. Martineau, Harriet Dawn Island (1845) 3. Welford, Richard Griffiths How will Free Trade in Com affect the Farmer (1843) 4. Morton, John and Trimmer, Joshua Effects of Protecting Duties on the Profits of Agriculture (1846) Index to Volumes I-V