272 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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 Scottish approach to economics.
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1. Introduction 2. John Law and the Scottish Enlightenment 3. Francis Hutcheson 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 Century 13. Applied Economics in the Twentieth Century 14. Postscript
Biography
Dow, Alexander; Dow, Sheila
