![]() ![]() She also embraced Adam Smith’s ideas, including his concept of the economy as a self-regulating system, working best in the absence of state intervention, and his belief in the natural harmony of interests. ![]() She thus promoted the economic theories of David Ricardo (which she might have known only at second hand from James Mill’s book) Footnote 2 and Thomas Malthus’s population theories. Footnote 1 Each of the Illustrations was built around a particular aspect of political economy, and their plots were subservient to the propositions Martineau desired to illustrate. ![]() The explicit purpose of Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy, a series of twenty-five novellas published between 18, was to make ‘the principles which regulate society more clear and interesting at the same time by pictures of what those principles are actually doing in communities’. ![]()
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