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British empiricism and early political economy : Gregory King's 1696 estimates of national wealth and population / John A. Taylor.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, John A., 1942-
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of world history 0885-9159 ; no. 109.
- Contributions to the study of world history, 0885-9159 ; no. 109
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demography.
- History.
- Wealth.
- Population.
- England--Population--History--17th century.
- England.
- Wealth--England--History--17th century.
- Demography--England--History--17th century.
- King, Gregory, 1648-1712.
- King, Gregory.
- Physical Description:
- x, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
- Contents:
- Preliminary remarks
- Mathematical probability and demographic prediction
- Gregory King : man of projects
- British empiricism and shop arithmetic
- Higher mathematics and seventeenth-century political economy
- Shop arithmetic, conversation, and projects
- Queen Anne's bounty
- Gregory King's methods of calculation
- What was political arithmetic, really?
- George Chalmers and the stagnation of political arithmetic
- Wobbles and perturbations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313313067
- OCLC:
- 57208147
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