John Ramsay McCulloch
John Ramsay McCulloch (also M'Culloch , Mac Culloch , MacCulloch , spr.Mäck kalloch) (born March 1, 1789 on the island of Whithorn a village of The Machars ; † November 11, 1864 in London ) was an English economist of Scottish origin.
Life
McCulloch studied in Edinburgh , became a professor at the University of London in 1828 , later entered the administration and died in London in 1864 as a controller at the Stationery Office .
“In its natural state, the material is always of value.” “You see,” remarked Karl Marx , “how high even a MacCulloch stands above the fetishism of German thinkers who use the material and half a dozen other allotria for elements of the Explaining worth ”.
Fonts (selection)
- Dictionary of commerce and commercial navigation. London 1830, latest edition 1882; translated several times into German.
- The literature of political economy: a classified catalog of select publications in the different departments of that science. London 1845.
- Principles of political economy. (das. 1849, latest edition. 1885).
- Dictionary geographical, statistical and historical. (London 1842; new edition, with additions by Martin, 1866, 4 vols.)
- Descriptive and statistical account of the British Empire. (2nd ed. 1854, 2 vols.)
- Treatises and essays . Scattered Essays (1853).
- On metallic and paper money and banks. (1858; German by Bergius and Tellkampf, Leipzig 1859).
Individual evidence
- ^ MacCulloch: Discours sur l'origine, les progrès, les objets particuliers, et l'importance de l'économie politique. Traduit de l'anglois by Guilleaume Prevost. Genève-Paris 1825. p. 57.
- ↑ Karl Marx: On the Critique of Political Economy. Franz Duncker, 1859; MEW Vol. 13, p. 22. Note *.
- ↑ cit. in Karl Marx: On the Critique of Political Economy. Franz Duncker, 1859; MEW Vol. 13, p. 38.
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SURNAME | McCulloch, John Ramsay |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English economist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1789 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | on the Isle of Whithorn |
DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1864 |
Place of death | London |