ABSTRACT
It is not proposed to say anything very specific here about McCulloch's attitude to particular problems of economic policy; this will only be appropriate after the examination, which is to follow, of the details of McCulloch's thought. But McCulloch was editor of a political newspaper, the Scotsman, from 1817–21; he wrote for another one, the Courier, in the 1830s; and he was a friend of a number of politicians. There would seem then to be scope for an examination of McCulloch's politics, in the sense of his political allegiances.
