A history of Scottish economic thought
Modern economics has, at its foundation, scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. This revealing work examines the roots of this great tradition, places in perspective a selection of authors, and assesses their contribution over three centuries in the light of a distinctive Sco...
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge
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| Series: | Routledge history of economic thought.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433690406719 |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 John Law and the Scottish Enlightenment; 3 Francis Hutcheson, 1694-1746; 4 David Hume as a political economist; 5 Sir James Steuart, Principles of Political Oeconomy; 6 Adam Smith: Real Newtonian; 7 Adam Smith: Common sense and aesthetics in the Age of Experiments; 8 James Mill as economist: Theory dominated by deductive method; 9 John Ramsay McCulloch; 10 The place of Thomas Chalmers in Scottish political economy; 11 John Rae
- 12 Economics in the Scottish universities from the late nineteenth century13 A Scottish tradition of applied economics in the twentieth century; 14 Postscript; Index
