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The biographical dictionary of British economists / editor-in-chief, Donald Rutherford.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economists--Great Britain--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Economists.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Oxford reference.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This dictionary brings together in-depth biography essays on over 600 individuals, including many who are not normally thought of as economists but who nonetheless made penetrating and original contributions, including writers such as H. G. Wells, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Fielding and Charles Dickens; astronomers and mathematicians such as Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley and Isaac Barrow; the chess grandmaster Augustus Mongredien; the mountaineer Albert Mummery; the inventor of the machine gun, George Puckle; and many others from the fields of medicine, religion, politics, banking, science, agriculture and the East India Company employees.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 6, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9780199754717
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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