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ADAM SMITH: TWO LETTERS TO HENRY BEAUFOY, MP
Author(s) -
Raynor David R.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
scottish journal of political economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9485
pISSN - 0036-9292
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9485.1996.tb00952.x
Subject(s) - adam smith , legislation , fishing , pessimism , law , economics , law and economics , history , philosophy , political science , neoclassical economics , theology
This article prints two hitherto unknown letters by Adam Smith to Henry Beaufoy (1750‐95), MP for Great Yarmouth, concerning legislation that beaufoy and William Pitt had promoted. In the first letter (14 November 1786) Smith comments on changes to existing customs and exicese regulations(26 Geo. III c.49 and c.59), and implicitly takes some credit for legislation concerning the hering fishery (25 Geo. III c.65, 26 Geo. III c.81, 27 Geo. III c.10). In the second letter (29 January 1787) Smith expresses considerable pessimism about the philanthropic proposals of the British Fisheries Society to build fishing villages in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.