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Several of the essays collected by William Barber discuss the economics of Lieber, both at South Carolina and, later, at Columbia. William J. Barber, ed., Breaking the Academic Mould: Economists and American Higher Learning in the Nineteenth Century, Wesleyan University Press (1988).

Richard Adelstein

Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics

Wesleyan University

Middletown, CT 06459 USA

http://works.bepress.com/adelstein

On Nov 20, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Nicola Giocoli - UNIPI <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi all,

I am looking for information/sources on the economic thought of University of South Carolina professor Francis Lieber (1800-1872).

What I know about him as an economist is only what Joseph Dorfman wrote in the second volume of The Economic Mind in American Civilization, namely, that he was a free trader and taught Say (and perhaps Bastiat).

Lieber is obviously important as a political theorist and philosopher of law, but I am interested in his economic ideas (if any). In particular, I am looking for the introduction he, according to Dorfman, penned for Louisa McCord’s 1848 translation of Bastiat’s Sophisms of the Protective Policy. But any further help or suggestion would of course be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Nicola Giocoli