Mountifort Longfield
Samuel Mountifort Longfield (* 1802 in Desertserges , County Cork , † November 21, 1884 in Dublin ) was an Irish lawyer and economist. He was the first to hold the Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin . He gave up the professorship again in 1834 to take over the better-paid Regius Professorship of Feudal and English Law .
His statements in his main work "Lectures on Political Economy" were unusual for their time and were only rediscovered after 1900. According to Joseph Schumpeter , Longfields' system "could still have been seen in 1890 (...)".
His most important approaches revolve around the labor theory of value , an analysis of capital and a distribution theory (based on a concept of marginal productivity ) and anticipated important approaches of the Austrian school, for example by Eugen Böhm von Bawerk . In this respect, he is considered a representative of the marginal utility theory avant la lettre .
Works
- Four Lectures on Poor Laws, 1834.
- Lectures on Political Economy, 1834 ISBN 1-4099-5919-8
- Three Lectures on Commerce and One on Absenteeism, 1835
literature
- Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, chap. 4.1 (brief appreciation)
- Laurence S. Moss, Mountifort Longfield. Ireland's First Professor of Political Economy
- ERA Seligman, On Some Neglected British Economists
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c John Andrew Hamilton; Longfield, Mountifort in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 34 on Wikisource.
Web links
- Samuel Mountifort Longfield (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Longfield, Mountifort |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longfield, Samuel Mountifort (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish lawyer and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Desertserges , County Cork |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1884 |
| Place of death | Dublin |