ABSTRACT
Now all this was very Smithian in its interest in practical details and its stress on the correct institutional arrangements. McCulloch wrote a fair amount on the minutiae of such problems (not always agreeing with Smith) although what he had to say has been heavily compressed in this discussion. But these problems represented only part of McCulloch's concern with agriculture. The more interesting analytical development is to be found in his treatment of the Corn Laws, and of rent; and it is to the former of these topics that attention will now be turned.
