Umfang:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415313292
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9781136508646
Inhalt:
This book illustrates how the first social science, that of economics, was built. It examines and discusses the work of Josiah Child, Nicholas Barbon,John Collins, William Petty, John Locke and Dudley North
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I The Old Style -- 1 Sir Josiah Child, merchant economist -- 2 Nicholas Barbon, projector -- PART II The New Style -- 3 Science and objectivity in the seventeenth century -- 4 John Collins -- mathematics and economics -- 5 Sir William Petty -- political arithmetic -- 6 John Locke -- philosopher as economist -- 7 Sir Dudley North -- a deductive theory -- PART III The Legacy -- 8 Economic theories during the eighteenth century -- Appendices -- I A Bibliography of Sir Josiah Child -- II Child's Sources -- III The Great Recoinage: an alternative estimate -- IV The Authorship of Sir Dudley North's Discourses upon Trade -- V John Locke, 'Some of the Consequences that are like to follow upon Lessening of Interest to 4 Percent' [1668-74] -- Bibliography -- Subject Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Letwin, William The Origins of Scientific Economics Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415313292
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
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