First edition, dedicated ‘to the memory of Herbert B. Adams, who first taught me the meaning of liberalism’.

Hollander (1871–1940) spent his entire career at Johns Hopkins University. ‘A versatile scholar, his special fields were labour economics, the history of economic thought and public finance … As a doctrinal historian Hollander is especially remembered for his discovery and editing of Ricardo’s letters, and the latter’s important Notes on Malthus. He also collected a major library of works on economics’ (The New Palgrave).

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