A history of Scottish economic thought / edited by Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dow, Alexander (Alexander Carmichael)

Dow, Sheila C.

Series:

Routledge history of economic thought series

Routledge history of economic thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Scotland--History.

Economics.

History.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction / Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow

John Law and the Scottish Enlightenment / Antoin E. Murphy

Francis Hutcheson, 1694-1746 / Andrew S. Skinner

David Hume as a political economist / Carl Wennerlind

Sir James Steuart, Principles of political oeconomy / Andrew S. Skinner

Adam Smith : real Newtonian / Leonidas Montes

Adam Smith : common sense and aesthetics in the age of experiments / Flavio Comim

James Mill as economist : theory dominated by deductive method / Thomas S. Torrance

John Ramsay McCulloch / D.P. O'Brien

The place of Thomas Chalmers in Scottish political economy / A.M.C. Waterman

John Rae / Douglas Mair

Economics in the Scottish universities from the late nineteenth century / Alexander Dow and Alan Hutton

A Scottish tradition of applied economics in the twentieth century / Alan Hutton

Postscript / Sheila Dow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415344379

0203486234

OCLC:

61756820

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