Samuel Mountiford Longfield

Samuel Mountifort Longfield (* 1802 in Desert Serge, County Cork, † November 21, 1884 in Dublin) was an Irish lawyer and economist. He was the first holder of the Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin.

His remarks in his major work " Lectures on Political Economy " were unusual for their time and were only rediscovered after 1900. According to Joseph Schumpeter, the system Longfields would " also in 1890 still (...) can see."

His main approaches revolve around the labor theory of value, an analysis of capital and distribution theory (based on a concept of marginal productivity ) and took important approaches of the Austrian School, about Eugen Bohm Bawerk of anticipated. He applies insofar as the representative of the marginal utility theory avant la lettre.

Works

• Four Lectures on Poor Laws, 1834.
• Lectures on Political Economy, 1834 ISBN 1-4099-5919-8
• Three Lectures on Commerce and One on absenteeism, 1835