DE QUINCEY, Thomas.

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The Logic of Political Economy. First edition, inscribed "from the publishers" on the front free endpaper verso. The Logic of Political Economy, De Quincey's exposition of Ricardian economics, is the author's principal economic work. The work, compiled from a series of papers by his publisher, discusses the relative influence of utility and scarcity, with the former described as affirmative or power value, and the latter as negative or resistance value. De Quincey's essay received a glowing review from John Stuart Mill.

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