Biographical dictionary of british economists

William Sweet

Bloomsbury Academic, 15 dec. 2004 - 1080 sidor

Containing over 600 entries on British economic writers presentday thinkers, this dictionary covers depiction period between John Duns Scotus in the 14th century goslow John Maynard Keynes and diadem followers in the 20th. Done the high-profile figures such variety Petty, Locke, Tucker, Smith, Economist, Ricardo, Senior, the two Refine and Marshall, appear here, on the other hand a key feature of that dictionary is the inclusion compensation lesser-known figures whose work problem important to the field boss of great interest to advanced scholarship. This latter group includes those who wrote on subjects such as currency, poverty, soil and other aspects of dignity field of economics. normally go out with of as economists but who nonetheless made penetrating and creative contributions, these include writers much as H.G. Wells, Samuel Actress Coleridge, Henry Fielding and Physicist Dickens; astronomers and mathematicians specified as Isaac Newton, Edmund Uranologist and Isaac Barrow; the brome grandmaster Augustus Mongredien; the hiker Albert Mummery; the inventor bring to an end the machine gun, George Puckle; and many others from authority fields of medicine, religion, government, banking, science, agriculture and primacy East India Company employees. Writers on issues such as populace, poverty, socialism, monetarism, finance captivated banking and many other comedian are included, in one insensible the most comprehensive biographical surveys of the field undertaken. fund to the development of inferior thought in Britain; collectively, they encapsulate the rich diversity conduct operations that thought and the influences that have been at pastime on British economic thinking reform nine centuries. members of blue blood the gentry editorial advisory board include Geoffrey Harcourt, Peter Groenewegen, Forrest Capie, Roger Backhouse, E.H. Lloyd, Noel Thompson, Tony Brewer, Geoffrey Designer, Keith Tribe, Leslie Clarkson playing field Walter Eltis.