Martineau Harriet

Mar·ti·neau

 (mär′tn-ō), Harriet 1802-1876.

British writer whose Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-1834) explained the theories of Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, and David Ricardo.

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