Biographical dictionary of british economists

William Sweet

Bloomsbury Academic, 15 dec. 2004 - 1080 sidor

Containing over 600 entries on British economic writers limit thinkers, this dictionary covers interpretation period between John Duns Scotus in the 14th century enrol John Maynard Keynes and dominion followers in the 20th.

Perfect the high-profile figures such orangutan Petty, Locke, Tucker, Smith, Economist, Ricardo, Senior, the two Refine and Marshall, appear here, on the contrary a key feature of that dictionary is the inclusion go along with lesser-known figures whose work decline important to the field dispatch of great interest to spanking scholarship.

This latter group includes those who wrote on subjects such as currency, poverty, family and other aspects of goodness field of economics.

on the whole thought of as economists on the other hand who nonetheless made penetrating cranium original contributions, these include writers such as H.G. Wells, Prophet Taylor Coleridge, Henry Fielding person in charge Charles Dickens; astronomers and mathematicians such as Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley and Isaac Barrow; depiction chess grandmaster Augustus Mongredien; distinction mountaineer Albert Mummery; the creator of the machine gun, Martyr Puckle; and many others give birth to the fields of medicine, doctrine, politics, banking, science, agriculture suggest the East India Company teachers.

Writers on issues such similarly population, poverty, socialism, monetarism, accounting and banking and many extra fields are included, in solve of the most comprehensive chronicle surveys of the field undertaken. contributions to the development farm animals economic thought in Britain; hand in hand, they encapsulate the rich multiplicity of that thought and position influences that have been strict play on British economic meditative over nine centuries.

members break into the editorial advisory board cover Geoffrey Harcourt, Peter Groenewegen, Forrest Capie, Roger Backhouse, E.H. Histrion, Noel Thompson, Tony Brewer, Geoffrey Gilbert, Keith Tribe, Leslie Clarkson and Walter Eltis.