29. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. II, p. 10.

30. Hodgskin, Popular Political Economy, p. 140.

31. T. R. Malthus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent, London, 1815, p. 7.

32. Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy, p. 493.

33. Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations; traduction nouvelle, avec des notes et observations; par Germain Garnier, Paris, 1802, 2 volumes. The French edition of Adam Smith, excerpted by Marx already in 1844; see MEGA. 1/3, pp. 457–93.

34. Genesis iii, 19.

35. grisette: young shop-girl.

36. Fourier, Le Nouveau Monde industriel et sociétaire, in OEuvres complets, Paris, 1848, Vol. VI, pp. 245–52.

37. Nassau Senior, Principes fondamentaux, pp. 309–35.

38. Bastiat et Proudhon, Gratuité du crédit, p. 200.

39. Malthus, Definitions in Political Economy, pp. 69–70.

40. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Vol. II, Bk II, Ch. 2, pp. 270–77.

41. ‘Subjects of exchange’ should clearly read ‘objects of exchange’. [MELI note]

42. See above, p. 617.

43. See above, p. 585.

44. Bastiat and Proudhon, Gratuité du crédit, p. 200.

45. ibid., p. 288.

46. A. Anderson (Scottish chemical manufacturer, not to be confused with James Anderson, Scottish farmer, and eighteenth-century originator of the theory of ground rent), The Recent Commercial Distress; or, the Panic, Analysed: Showing the Cause and Cure, London, 1847.

47. Say, Traité d’économie politique, Vol. II, p. 430.

48. Ramsay, An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth.

49. Ricardo, On the Principles of Political Economy, pp. 26–7. The passage is sometimes compressed, sometimes expanded, in the quoting, in line with Marx’s usual method in the notebooks.

50. Petty, Political Arithmetic, pp. 178–9.

51. ‘Assert’ is a suggested emendation for ‘overlook’ as found in the original text.

52. Sismondi, Nouveaux Principes d’économie politique, Vol. I, pp. 94–8.

53. Cherbuliez, Richesse ou pauvreté, pp. 16–19.

54. The number 29 refers to Notebook V, p. 29. See above, p. 543, and Storch, Cours d’économie politique, Vol. I, pp. 411–12.

55. Storch, Cours d’économie politique, Vol. I, p. 246. The number 26a refers to an excerpt-book.

56. Storch, Considérations sur la nature du revenu national, Paris, 1824.