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The Dictionary of Political Economy (later: Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, and still later: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics) was a series of books, first published by Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave between 1894 and 1899 in three volumes. Some reprint were published, and a supplement in 1908. Although the title says dictionary, the work had from the beginning more the character of an encyclopedia.

Palgrave's Dictionary was not the first in its sort. There had been some attempts to create a similar work in English, and in France and Germany there had been predecessors.

Between 1924 and 1926 a new edition, edited by Henry Higgs was published, entitled Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy.

In 1987 The New Palgrave : A Dictionary of Economics appeared. It was a four volume work, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman. It was again published in 2008 in eight volumes. There is also an online version.

Stigler ( distinguishes only two editions: "Palgrave I" and "Palgrave II". In fact anno 2008 there have been published at least four different editions of the Dictionary of Political Economy.

Predecessors
The Dictionary of Political Economy was not the first dictionary on the subject in English. Already in 1845 Charles Knight published a Political Dictionary, forming a work of universal reference, both constitutional and legal; and embracing the terms of civil administration, of political economy and social relations, and of all the more important statistical departments of finance and commerce. It consisted of two volumes.

In 1863 Henry Dunning Macleod started an ambitious project: A Dictionary of Political Economy : Biographical, Bibliographical, Historical, and Practical. Only 1 volume (A-C) was published. In France the Dictionnaire d'économie politique first appeared in 1852 in two volumes. It had famous economists like Jean Baptiste Say as contributors. In 1854 a second edition was published. In 1864 a third edition appeared.

These French dictionaries had had their predecessors, dating back to 1709.

In Germany the first of 6 volumes (and 2 supplements) of Handwörterbuch der Staatswissenschaften was published in 1890.

see:

Giancarlo de Vivo; The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 25, Issue 1, 1 August 2006, Pages 121–126,

https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzl008

https://academic.oup.com/cpe/article-abstract/25/1/121/417337

First edition: Dictionary of Political Economy
The first published Dictionary of Political Economy appeared in three volumes in 1894, 1896 and 1899. The contract between Palgrave and Macmillan, the publisher, dates back to 1888. The original contract called for a work in two volumes. Next a plan was made to make publications in smaller parts of about 120-130 pages each, that would appear at quarterly intervals. From 1891 onward, parts of the Dictionary were published. In 1891 appeared the first part: Abatement – Bede. The next year two more parts were printed, extending into the letter C. At that stage the publication in smaller parts stopped, and the choice was made for three volumes.

ref online version:

Milgate M. (2008) Palgrave’s Dictionary of Political Economy. In: Palgrave Macmillan (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1299-2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1299-2

The project was not completed in 1899. The appendix to the third volume was first published in 1908.


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OCLC for three vols: 1807077 (KB) 901304810 (id./VU/UvA/EU)

Commercial success of the publication

The first phase was a clear commercial failure. The sales of the first three parts were very small. This may have added to the change of plan to a publication in three volumes.

for sale now:	https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/dictionary-of-political-economy.html met foto's

Volume 1


BL: http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01006805307

check BL (via chat ofzo?) voor OCLC nr

vol. 1 	1894: 	https://archive.org/details/cu31924032511226

in Macmillan Catalogue, January 1893:

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20131203

chapter 'Political Economy':

A Dictionary of Political Economy, by various writers. ed. R.H.I. Palgrave (part I. July 1891) see also OCLC 978706966 and 270357795

Volume 2
vol. 2 	1896:	https://archive.org/details/cu31924032511234
 * id. vol. 2

review of vol. 2:

http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/30th-january-1897/9/dictionary-of-political-economy-edited-by-r-h-ingl

Volume 3
1899
 * id. vol. 3

vol. 3 	1899:	https://archive.org/details/cu31924032511242

Supplement
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556035117506
 * supplement (Appendix) 1908 ????

Reviews of the first ed
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 4, issue 1, October 1889, p. 77

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/4/1/77/1865810?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/4.1.77

https://search.proquest.com/openview/cc442b079a70bbd5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2316

review jan. 1894 of "parts IV and V (each 128 pages)"

in: The Economic Review, vol. 4, issue 1, p. 134-6

review of 3 vols:

Samuel McCune Lindsay in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 16 (sept. 1900), pp. 135-138

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1010116 freely available

nog checken: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1807077.html

reprints of the first edition, and appendix
a list of reprints of the first edition

with additional links to online versions

vol. 1	1901:	reprinted pages 1-256 with corrections

https://archive.org/details/cu31924013993245

and	https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofpoli01palg

1909:	reprinted pages 1-256 with corrections

1915:	reprinted with corrections

https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofpoli01palguoft

1919:	reprinted with corrections

vol. 2	1900:	reprinted

1910:	reprinted with corrections

1915:	reprinted with corrections

1912 (?):	https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofpoli02palguoft

vol. 3 	1901:	reprinted

1908:	corrected, with appendix

https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofpoli03palg

1910:	reprinted with corrections

1913: 	reprinted with corrections

https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofpoli03palguoft

1918:	reprinted.

(zo'n lijstje kan ook gemaakt worden voor Higgs ed.:

vol. 1	printed 1925	reprinted 1926

vol. 2	printed 1923	reprinted 1925, 1926

vol. 3	printed 1926 (February)	reprinted May 1926

en voor New Palgrave (zie New Palgrave 1987, p. iv !!!)

see: https://www-jstor-org.access.authkb.kb.nl/stable/2726859?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Henry Higgs: Palgrave's Dictionary
Between 1924 and 1926 a new edition of Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy was published, edited by

vol. 1 en 2 zijn opnieuw verschenen in 1925, resp. 1924

zie bijv. Nature, vol. 115, issue 760 (16 May 1925) (OCLC 4649949772)

https://www.nature.com/articles/115760a0

en Nature, 16 February 1924, p. 233   (OCLC 4649911036)

https://www.nature.com/articles/113233a0

over vol. 1 en 2: JPE vol. 33, no. 5 (oct. 1925) (OCLC 4642096942, 6822139612 and 5545651875)

review by G.G. Taylor:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/253720

and https://www.jstor.org/stable/1822045

en in Economica (Review by E.M. Burns) (OCLC 5790829697 and 7375100508)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2548021

vol. 3 is bijv. ook nog verschenen in 1926 (edited by Henry Higgs).

London : MacMillan & Co:

zie bijv. Journal of Political Economy vol. 34, no. 5 (oct. 1926), p. 667/8 – review (OCLC 5791134863)

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/253805

and https://www.jstor.org/stable/1820272

and this edition has been republished 1963:

1987 the three vols have been reprinted,

to mark the publication of ''The New Palgrave" etc.

ISBN 978 0 333 47048 0 ????? = ?????? OCLC 1047665013

some background info and links to old reviews: by Murray Milgate

(in New Palgrave ???)

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1057%2F978-1-349-95121-5_1299-2

The New Palgrave
--- see: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

In 1987 the first edition of ''The New Palgrave : A Dictionary of Economics" appeared.

Editors: The preparations began in 1983, when the editors compiled an initial list of headwords and invited around 100 economist to participate. The entries were commissioned by the editors from offices in Cambridge and Baltimore, and prepared for publication by the Macmillan Press in London.
 * John Eatwell of Trinity College, Cambridge
 * Murray Milgate of Harvard University
 * Peter Newman of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

The work, in four volumes, contains nearly 2000 signed entries, written by more than 900 contributors. Over 700 of these entries are in fact biographical. The New Palgrave includes some 50 entries reprinted from the original Dictionary of Political Economy, like F.Y. Edgeworth's article on Agents of Production and Henry Sidgwick's entry on Economic Science and Economics.

To mark the publication of The New Palgrave, a reprint of the original Dictionary was published.

In 2008 a second edition was published.

(Digital) reprint 2016
https://books.google.nl/books?id=K49PDAAAQBAJ

edited by Eatwell

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-349-10358-4

ISBN 9781349103584 (online) 978 1 349 10360 7 (print)

doi:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10358-4