James Bonar

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James Bonar (1852 - 1941) was a British civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought. He was born in Perth, Scotland and studied at Oxford University, (BA, 1877) and Glasgow University, (LLD, 1886). He was one of the founding members of the Royal Economic Society. As a historian of economics he concentrated mainly on the work of Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. He also introduced the works of the Austrian economists to a largely unaware English-speaking public. His Philosophy and Political Economy was much appreciated in continental Europe. He contributed extensively to Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, and published many aricles in the Economic Journal. He obtained an Honorary Doctorate from Cambridge University in 1935.

[edit] Major publications

• Parson Malthus, 1881.
• Malthus and his Work, 1885.
• Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus: 1810 - 1823 (ed.), 1887.
• "Austrian economists and their vue of value", 1888, QJE
• Philosophy and Political Economy, 1893 (4^th ed. 1927)
• Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library, 1894.
• Letters of David Ricardo to Hutches Trower and Others: 1811 - 1823 (with J.H. Hollander), 1899.
• Disturbing Elements in the Study and Teaching of Political Economy, 1911.
• "Knapp's theory of money", 1922, EJ
• "Memories of F.Y. Edgeworth", 1926, EJ
• The Tables Turned. A Lecture and Dialogue on Adam Smith and the Classical Economists, 1926.
• "Ricardo on Malthus", 1929, EJ
• Theories of Population from Raleigh to Arthur Young, 1931

[edit] References

• "Bonar, James" in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, Eatwell, Milgate, Newman (eds.), 1987.
• M. Blaug (ed.) - Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999.