Item 64 - William Whewell to Richard Jones

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Trinity College - WW had already discovered the mistakes RJ pointed out concerning WW's paper ['Mathematical Exposition of Some Doctrines of Political Economy', 1829]: 'I never expected to do anything except describe the logical consequences of assumed principles, but it seemed not useless to do this - first because Ricardo had done it wrong. Secondly because the strict consequences cannot be obtained, viz the proportions of the tax on rent and without mathematics - and thirdly because it does not seem too much to expect that the data on which the details of the calculation depend may be obtained when it is known to what use they may be put'. RJ must send him without delay the manuscripts to his book ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the Sources of Taxation: Part 1. - Rent', 1831], since the syndics of the Cambridge press meet on May 5th.