3 AUGUST 1889, Page 24

A History of Political Economy. By John Kells Ingram, LL.D.

(A. and C. Black, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Ingram has here republished in an enlarged form the article on " Political Economy " which he contributed to the recent edition of the " Encyclopedia Britan- nica." His object, as he says in his preface, has been " rather to exhibit the historic development of economic thought in its rela- tions with general philosophic ideas, than to give an exhaustive account of economic literature." As a matter of fact, it omits little or nothing that the average student wants to know. Pos- sessed of the information thus furnished, he will be able to form opinions for himself, for he will know the conclusion to which leading thinkers have come.