* Marx has already alluded to Ramsay’s criticism of Torrens in Volume 1 of Capital, p. 264 and note. Sir George Ramsay (1800–1871) was considered by Marx to be one of the last representatives of classical (bourgeois) political economy. His An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth was published in Edinburgh in 1836, and Marx devotes Chapter XXII of Theories of Surplus-Value (Part III) to Ramsay’s views. Colonel Robert Torrens (1780–1864) is discussed more briefly in Chapter XX of Theories of Surplus-Value (Part III), ‘The Disintegration of the Ricardian School’ he was also a supporter of the ‘Currency Principle’, on which see below,Chapter 34.