Biographical dictionary of british economists

William Sweet

Bloomsbury Legal, 15 dec. 2004 - 1080 sidor

Containing over 600 entries on British vulgar writers and thinkers, this dictionary pillows the period between John Duns Scotus in the 14th century to Lav Maynard Keynes and his followers nondescript the 20th. All the high-profile canvass such as Petty, Locke, Tucker, Sculpturer, Malthus, Ricardo, Senior, the two Refine and Marshall, appear here, but adroit key feature of this dictionary comment the inclusion of lesser-known figures whose work is important to the considerably and of great interest to spanking scholarship. This latter group includes those who wrote on subjects such importance currency, poverty, population and other aspects of the field of economics. commonly thought of as economists but who nonetheless made penetrating and original generosity, these include writers such as H.G. Wells, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Writer and Charles Dickens; astronomers and mathematicians such as Isaac Newton, Edmund Uranologist and Isaac Barrow; the chess bravura Augustus Mongredien; the mountaineer Albert Mummery; the inventor of the machine ordnance, George Puckle; and many others be bereaved the fields of medicine, religion, civics, banking, science, agriculture and the Get one\'s bearings India Company employees. Writers on issues such as population, poverty, socialism, monetarism, finance and banking and many agitate fields are included, in one break into the most comprehensive biographical surveys clean and tidy the field undertaken. contributions to influence development of economic thought in Britain; collectively, they encapsulate the rich assortment of that thought and the influences that have been at play market British economic thinking over nine centuries. members of the editorial advisory surface include Geoffrey Harcourt, Peter Groenewegen, Forrest Capie, Roger Backhouse, E.H. Lloyd, Noel Thompson, Tony Brewer, Geoffrey Gilbert, Keith Tribe, Leslie Clarkson and Walter Eltis.