DeLong Smackdown Watch: Alan Taylor Advances the Claims of Thomas Attwood

From Threadneedle Street, Alan Taylor emails that he believes that Thomas Attwood in 1817 has priority over John Stuart Mill in 1829 in figuring out the importance of financial market mechanisms in causing a "general glut":

FYI: Thomas Attwood in 1817: http://books.google.com/books?id=IcFHAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=thomas+attwood&hl=en&ei=DGVFTOLMEoS0lQeNq-XEBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false See pages 28-42 ish -- especially 34-35...