Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[619]. So in Quarterly Review, Jan. 1824, p. 315, Malthus says profits depend rather on the demand for produce than on the demand for labour.

[620]. Discourse on Pol. Econ., by J. R. MacCulloch, pp. 61, 62 (1st and 2nd edd.), 1825.

[621]. Conversations on Pol. Econ., 1817 (1st and 2nd edd.), p. 137. Mrs. Marcet’s memory is preserved for latter-day readers by Macaulay’s reference to her in the essay on Milton.

[622]. Discourse, l. c. Cf. MacC.’s Pol. Econ., Pt. III. ch. ii. p. 378 (ed. 1843); Prof. Fawcett’s Manual of Pol. Econ., p. 131 (1876).

[623]. James Mill, Elem. (1821), p. 25; John Mill, Principles, II. xi. § 1. Cf. Fort. Rev., 1869, May; Thornton, Labour, II. i. p. 83.

[624]. Wealth of Nations, I. viii. p. 31, 2.

[625]. Ibid., IV. ix. 306, 1.

[626]. Ibid., IV. ix. 310, 2.

[627]. Ibid., V. i. 327, 2.

[628]. Pol. Econ., ed. 1836, ch. iv. sect. ii. p. 224.