1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910348235903321

Titolo

A history of Scottish economic thought / / edited by Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-28710-0

1-134-28711-9

1-280-54887-8

9786610548873

0-203-48623-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Routledge history of economic thought

Altri autori (Persone)

DowAlexander (Alexander Carmichael)

DowSheila C

Disciplina

330.0922411

330.109411

Soggetti

Economics - Scotland

Economics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 John Law and the Scottish Enlightenment; 3 Francis Hutcheson, 1694-1746; 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 century13 A Scottish tradition of applied economics in the twentieth century; 14 Postscript; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. Scottish Enlightenment is an established area of research interest, and this volume offers new scholarship on key Enlightenment figures whilst placing emphasis on their approach to economic thought. Smith and Hume are key, but other less familiar, yet im

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910376207303321

Autore

Carey Michael

Titolo

SIGMOD 95: International Conference on Management of Data

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Association for Computing Machinery, 1995

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 p.;)

Collana

ACM Conferences

Soggetti

Information Technology - Computer Science (Hardware & Networks)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph