Biographical Dictionary Of British Economists

Donald Rutherford (Anthology Editor)

Biographical Dictionary Of British Economists

Donald Rutherford (Anthology Editor)

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This Dictionary brings together new essays on over six hundred individuals. It also includes coverage of individuals who are not normally thought of as economists but who nonetheless made penetrating and original contributions, these include 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. Writers on issues such as population, poverty, socialism, monetarism, finance and banking and many other fields are included, in one of the most comprehensive biographical surveys of the field yet undertaken.

Individually, the entries capture important and often overlooked contributions to the development of economic thought in Britain; collectively, they encapsulate the rich diversity of that thought and the influences that have been at play on British economic thinking over nine centuries.

Contributors are leading international scholars in economics and economic history and 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.

Introduction
Acknowledgements
How to use the Dictionary
General bibliography
List of contributors
Biographical entries A-Z
Index

Product details

Published	03 May 2007
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	1080
ISBN	9781843711513
Imprint	Thoemmes Continuum
Dimensions	234 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Donald Rutherford

DONALD RUTHERFORD is the Director of Studies at th…

"Almost 200 economists from around the world contributed meticulously edited essays to this biographical dictionary.... It merits not only consulting as a reference source on individual British economists but also for selective reading as a guide to the history of economic thought. These two volumes are recommended for the libraries of all graduate departments of economics and for large research libraries." -American Reference Books Annual, Vol. 36, 2005

American Reference Books Annual
'...a pleasure to read...informative, insightful and perceptive and judicious in interpretation and evaluation, with little unnecessary of unjustified lionisation.'

Warren J. Samuels, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand