ABSTRACT
McCulloch's treatment of the issues of pauperism and associated problems, and of emigration and the various other remedies suggested for this condition, is of interest as showing the development of his thought within the Classical framework. Both on population theory and Poor Law policy he ultimately adopted positions almost completely opposed to those which he had originally held, although he supported schemes of emigration fairly consistently from a very early stage; and on a number of issues he found himself in opposition to the body of Classical opinion.
