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Article: 7 Moffat's "Unorthodox" critique.(Part II: nineteenth-century British and continental critics)
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- The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Although he wrote a number of articles and two important books on political economy, the contributions of Robert Scott Moffat, British author/essayist (1834-1895), are less well known than those of many of his contemporaries. He was a lucid, forceful writer whose works were often at odds with the premises of received economic doctrine. In focusing on the shortcomings of orthodox economics his efforts fell outside the classical mainstream, and perhaps this may have been a factor in his receiving less attention than did other writers of his day.
His first book, titled The Economy of Consumption, appeared in 1878, and in it Moffat, in the tradition of earlier ...