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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Ramsay McCulloch (1789–1864)

McCulloch, John Ramsay. A Scottish statistician and political economist; born at Whithorn, Wigtownshire, March 1, 1789; died in London, Nov. 11, 1864. Among the large number of works he wrote or compiled may be mentioned: ‘Principles of Political Economy’ (1825), his chief work; ‘Dictionary of Commerce’ (1832); ‘Statistical Account of the British Empire’ (1837); etc. He was a disciple of Adam Smith and Ricardo, and edited the works of both, adding a life of the former to his edition of the ‘Wealth of Nations.’