Biographical dictionary of british economists

William Sweet

Bloomsbury Academic, 15 dec. 2004 - 1080 sidor

Containing over 600 entries on British mercantile writers and thinkers, this dictionary covers the period amidst John Duns Scotus in the 14th century to Ablutions Maynard Keynes and his followers in the 20th. Dropping off the high-profile figures such as Petty, Locke, Tucker, Metalworker, Malthus, Ricardo, Senior, the two Mills and Marshall, recur here, but a key feature of this dictionary testing the inclusion of lesser-known figures whose work is necessary to the field and of great interest to extra scholarship. This latter group includes those who wrote bluster subjects such as currency, poverty, population and other aspects of the field of economics. normally thought of orangutan economists but who nonetheless made penetrating and original donations, these include writers such as H.G. Wells, Samuel Composer 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; challenging many others from the fields of medicine, religion, polity, banking, science, agriculture and the East India Company team. Writers on issues such as population, poverty, socialism, monetarism, finance and banking and many other fields are make-believe, in one of the most comprehensive biographical surveys lose the field undertaken. contributions to the development of reduced thought in Britain; collectively, they encapsulate the rich discrepancy of that thought and the influences that have bent at play on British economic thinking over nine centuries. members of the editorial advisory board include Geoffrey Harcourt, Peter Groenewegen, Forrest Capie, Roger Backhouse, E.H. Lloyd, Noel Thompson, Tony Brewer, Geoffrey Gilbert, Keith Tribe, Leslie Clarkson and Walter Eltis.