Laissez-faire and state intervention in nineteenth-century Britain: prepared for the Economic History Society

## HISTORY This series, specially commissioned by the Economic History Society, focuses attention on the main problems of economic history. Recently there has been a great deal of detailed research and reinterpretation, some of it controversial, but it has remained largely inaccessible to students or buried in academic journals. This series is an attempt to provide a guide to the current interpretations of the key themes of economic history in which advances have recently been made, or in which there has been significant debate. Each book will survey recent work, indicate the full scope of the particular problem as it has been opened by research and distinguish what conclusions can be drawn in the present state of knowledge. Both old and recent work will be reviewed critically, but each book will provide a balanced survey rather than an exposition of the author's own viewpoint. The series as a whole will give readers access to the best work done, help them to draw their own conclusions in some major fields and, by means of the critical bibliography in each book, guide them in the selection of further reading. The aim is to provide a springboard to further work and not a set of prepackaged conclusions or short cuts. Front Matter....Pages 1-9 Towards a Definition of Laissez-faire....Pages 11-12 The Area of Debate ....Pages 13-17 The Theory of Economic Policy....Pages 18-26 The Transmission of Economic Ideas....Pages 27-31 Benthamism, Laissez-faire and Interventionism....Pages 32-38 Interventionism and Laissez-faire in Practice....Pages 39-49 The Chronology of Laissez-faire....Pages 50-52 Was There an Age of Laissez-faire?....Pages 53-64 Back Matter....Pages 65-80 Prepared For The Economic History Society By Arthur J. Taylor. Bibliography: P. 71-77.