Forward 1. David Hume: A biographical and critical overview 2. Textual thinking 3. Reading the Treatise through the Abstract. 4. The Treatise: Shaping Social and Economic Life 5. Hume’s Social and Moral Economy 6. Hume’s Essays: from popular to political economy 7. Hume and Economic Knowledge 8. Stadial notions and Hume’s influence
Biography
Dr. Willie Henderson already has a number of monographs published by Routledge in the area of the intellectual history of economics, with growing attention recently paid to Enlightenment writers. His works approach the analysis of economic ideas via context and content with emphasis put on the constructed nature of past economics writing. His background is interdisciplinary and he brings a diverse range of techniques and experience to his scholarly writing.
'This book gives an original and valuable insight into Hume’s economic, political, and historical thought' Anthony Brewer (University of Bristol, UK)
