Thorstein Veblen Review author to: 'Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Riches'. By TURGOT, 1770. (Economic Classics). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898. 12mo. Pp. xxii + 112. The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 6, No. 4. (Sept., 1898), p. 575-576. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The editor of Economic Classics has again placed economic readers under obligation, by presenting a painstaking and excellent edition of Turgot's Reflections. The editor's task has been performed [576] with the same scrupulous regard for a veracious presentation of his author's work as has attended previous issues of the series, and the result is a rendering of the great Frenchman's economic doctrines such as leaves little to be desired either in reliability or in accessibility. Not the least commendable feature of this slender volume is the excerpts from the correspondence between Turgot and Hume, published in an appendix. Meager as they seem, these excerpts throw a light upon Turgot's position and upon his relation to the Physiocratic school which will help students toward an apprehension of the author's true place in the development of Economic doctrine. V.