B

Babbage, Charles 294

Babeuf, François Noël (Caius Gracchns) 305-7, 308, 313

Babeuvists 306

Bacon, Sir Francis 280see also Baconian

Baconian 13, 109, 120, 280

Baden government 460

Bagehot, Walter 201, 289, 292

Bailey, Samuel 106, 113-18, 127, 129, 130, 133, 137, 154, 242-3, 282, 485, 486

Bain, Alexander 483

Bakunin, Mikhail 309, 334, 340, 361, 378see also Bakuninite

Bakuninite 335

Balassa, Bela 294

Balsamo, Abbate Paolo 10

Balzac, Honoré de 388

Banfield, Thomas C. 129-30

Bank Act (1844) 264, 265

Bank of Amsterdam 216

Bank Charter Act (1833) 249

Bank of England 81

banking school 260

bullion Report and return to gold 193, 194, 197, 198, 199, 203, 206, 211

bullionist controversy 159-63, 165-6, 168, 170, 171, 172, 175, 180, 182-8

currency school 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236

aftermath 256, 257, 258, 259

controversy 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246

triumph 249, 250, 252, 253, 255, 256

laissez-faire441, 470

Millians 289

rechartering 237-8

Ricardian economics 293

Bank of France 242

Bank of Ireland 182, 184, 185, 186, 193

Bank Restriction Bill 198

Bank of Sweden 217, 218, 450

Bank of the United States 130, 216

banking school 253, 259-66, 432, 489-91

Barber, William P. 482

Baring, Alexander (now Lord Ashburton) 168, 198, 206, 223, 248, 263

Baring, Thomas 264

Barmby, John Goodwyn 209-10, 311

Barncci, Piero 472, 502

Bascom, Reverend John 469-70

Bastiat, Frédéric 281, 501, 502, 503

and French laissez-faire441-75

decline 470-71

influence in Europe 448-53

Macleod, Henry Dunning 461-3

Molinari, Gustave de 453-5

Pareto, Vilfredo 455-9

plutology: Hearn and Donisthorpe 463-5

Rau, Karl Heinrich 460-61

school 441-4

in United States of America 466-70

Baudrillart, Henri Joseph Léon 442, 443

Bauer 368

Bauer, Bruno 309, 361

Bauer, Otto 415-16

Bauer, P.T. 426

Bazard, Saint-Amand 387-8

Bebel, August 342, 345

Beeke, Henry 199, 200

Belgium 308, 310, 448

Benfield, Paul 162-3

Bennich, Axel Gustafsson 450

Benson, Bruce L. 312, 473, 502

Bentham, Jeremy 44, 49-68, 71, 72, 75, 76, 111, 112, 278, 286, 287, 481-2

‘Circulating Annuities’ (unfinished) 53

Defence of Usury51, 52

Fragment of Government49, 50

History of the War Between Jeremy Bentham and George III66

laissez-faire to statism 49-56

Manual of Political Economy (unpublished) 52

Of Laws in General50

panopticon 62-7

Paper Management Improved65

‘Paper Mischief Exposed’ 53

personal utilitarianism 56-60

‘Proposal for... Species of Paper Currency’ 52

Rationale of Reward (previously ‘Essay on Reward') 52

social utilitarianism 60-62

True Alarm53, 54, 55, 78see also Benthamite

Bentham, Samuel 51, 62, 65

Benthamite 54, 57, 62, 73, 74, 75, 91, 115, 120, 135, 277, 278, 394, 400, 401, 481

Bentinck, Lord 264

Benton, Thomas Hart 213, 224

Berardi, Domenico 449

Berlin Stock Exchange 451

Bernholz, Peter 224, 489

Bernstein, Eduard 345

Bertolini, A. 449

Besant, Annie 320, 351

Biddle, Clement C. 11, 479

Billington, James H. 305, 308, 311, 312, 313, 367, 368, 389, 404, 494, 500

bimetallic standard 204

Bingham, William 223

Birmingham Currency Reform Association 263

Bismarck, Otto Edward Leopold von 452

Black, John 74

Black, R.D.C. 295, 485, 493, 502

Blake, William 359

Blanqui, Jérome-Adolpe 442, 452

Blaug, Mark 45, 479

Bloch, Ernst 320, 342

Block, Maurice 443

Blumenberg, Werner 345, 497

Boase, Henry 168-9

Bober, M.M. 403, 431-2, 437, 498, 501

Bockelson, King 301

Boehme, Jacob 351, 359

Bogdanov, Alexander Alexandrovich 319

Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von 22, 90, 135, 138, 140, 141, 155, 415-16, 417, 419, 434, 435, 487, 500

History and Critique of Interest Theories142, 146

History of the Theories of Capital and Interest413

Karl Marx and the Close of His System414

Bolivia 10

Bonaparte, Louis 390, 473

boom-bust cycle 259, 433

Boot, H.M. 490

Borelli, Pasquale 10

Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus von 435

Bosanquet, Charles 197, 200

Bosanquet, J.W. 254

Bosellini of Modena, Carlo 10

Bourbon dynasty 75, 159

Bowley, Marian 152, 155, 481, 485, 486, 487

Bowring, John 50

Boyd, Walter 162-3, 169, 176, 178, 181-4, 186, 188, 190, 231

and anti-bullionist response 168-9

Letter to Pitt163-8, 172-3

Brahmin caste 380-81, 382

Bramson, Leon 367

Bray, John Francis 397-9, 500

Brazil 10, 443

Bright, John 281, 286, 401, 447, 455, 457

Briscoe, James Bland 404, 499

Bristow, Edward 504

Britain 11, 54, 97, 116, 122, 160, 163, 233

Age of Romanticism 357

banking school 263, 266, 267

bullion Report and return to gold 200, 216, 218

currency school 227, 231, 234, 245, 258, 266, 267

fractional-reserve banking 210-16

Hegelianism 357

laissez-faire441, 457, 461, 463

Ricardian economics 281, 287, 293

Royal Bank 461

Smithianism 3

Trotskyite movement 372see also British and under individual countries

British West Indies 171

British Wool Society 201

broken window fallacy 445

Brouckère, Charles de 448, 452, 473

Brougham, Henry 188

Brown, Thomas 11, 480

Bruce, Professor Thor W. 117, 154, 486

Buchholz, Friedrich 388

Bucolo, Placido 457, 474

Buddhism 320, 351

Buller, Cornelius 227

Bullion Committee 170, 171, 178

bullion see under monetary and banking thought

bullionism

culmination 179-84

mechanistic 186-9

bullionist

controversy 163, 487-9see also under monetary and banking thought

theory 194see also anti-bullionist

Buonarroti, Filippo Giuseppe Maria Lodovico 307-8

Burgess, Henry 229, 247, 248

Buridan, Jean 410, 462

Busacca, Professor Raffaele 448

Busch, Johann Georg 220-21, 489

business cycle crisis 428-33

disproportionality 431-3

profit 430-31

underconsumption 428-30

business cycle theory 177

Butt, Isaac 124, 126, 129, 134-5, 486

Byron, Lord 207