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I have 2 questions concerning the following two extracts.  I have not 
been able to locate a copy of Mallet's book.  Can anyone verify this 
extract? 
 
In the Ricardo reference below, Charles Sellars cannot remember the 
source.  Any suggestions? 
 
Mallet, J. L. 1921. Political Economy Club 
 67-8: In 1876, the Political Economy Club held a centenary celebration 
of "the Foundation of Economic Science."  Chairing this meeting was Mr. 
Gladstone, with Mr. Lowe on one side and the French Minister of Finance 
Mr. Leon Say on the other.  Mr. Lowe gave the first presentation. The 
message in his speech was that he did not feel that the future of 
political economy would have that much to offer: "at present, so far as 
my own humble opinion goes, I am not sanguine as to any very large or 
any very startling development in political economy."  "The 
controversies which we now have in political economy, although they 
offer a capital exercise for the local faculties, are not of the same 
thrilling importance as those of earlier days; the great work has been 
done." 
 
Sellers, Charles. 1991. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 
1815-1846 (NY: Oxford University Press). 
: A Philadelphian explained to David Ricardo the tacit 
conspiracy not to demand specie, "The whole of our population are 
either stockholders of banks or in debt to them."  "It is not in 
the interest of the first to press the banks and the rest are 
afraid."  Anyone who demanded specie "would have been persecuted 
as an enemy of society." 
 
Michael Perelman 
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