The history of Scottish economic thought

Modern economics has at its foundation scholarly contributions from many prominent Scottish thinkers. A History of Scottish Economic Thought 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...

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Otros Autores: Dow, Alexander Carmichael (-), Dow, Sheila C.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 2006.
Colección:Taylor & Francis open access books.
Routledge history of economic thought.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42134869*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.