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UNINA9910765602203321 |
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Titolo |
A history of Scottish economic thought / / edited by Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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©2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-28710-0 |
1-134-28711-9 |
1-280-54887-8 |
9786610548873 |
0-203-48623-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge history of economic thought |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economics - Scotland |
Economics - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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