A Comparison of Classical English Economic Thought with Newtonian Natural Philosophy
Author : Robert Ross Black
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Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Economics
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Author : Robert Ross Black
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Page : 1232 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Economics
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Author : Robert Ross Black
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Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Deborah A Redman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262264259
Reviews the epistemological ideas that inspired the classical economists: the methodological principles of Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Newton, Locke, Hume, Stewart, Herschel, and Whewell. The classical age of economics was marked by an intense interest in scientific methodology. It was, moreover, an age when science and philosophy were not yet distinct disciplines, and the educated were polymaths. The classical economists were acutely aware that suitable methods had to be developed before a body of knowledge could be deemed philosophical or scientific. They did not formulate their methodological views in a vacuum, but drew on a rich collection of philosophical ideas. Consequently, issues of methodology were at the heart of political economys rise as a science. The classical era of economics opened under Adam Smith with political economy understood as an integral part of a broader system of social philosophy; by the end, it had emerged via J. S. Mill as a "separate science", albeit one still inextricably tied to the other social sciences and to ethics. The Rise of Political Economy as a Science opens with a review of the epistemological ideas that inspired the classical economists: the methodological principles of Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Newton, Locke, Hume, Stewart, Herschel, and Whewell. These principles were influential not just in the development of political economy, but in the rise of social science in general. The author then examines science in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, with a particular emphasis on the all-important concept of induction. Having laid the necessary groundwork, she proceeds to a history and analysis of the methodologies of four economist-philosophers—Adam Smith, Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and J. S. Mill—selected for their historical importance as founders of economics and for their common Scottish intellectual lineage. Concluding remarks put classical methodology into a broader historical perspective.
Author : University of California, Berkeley
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Commencement ceremonies
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Author : Niccolò Guicciardini
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780239483
Isaac Newton is one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of most contemporary scientists. In fact, Newton would have defined himself not as a scientist, but as a natural philosopher. He was deeply involved in alchemical, religious, and biblical studies, and in the later part of his life he played a prominent role in British politics, economics, and the promotion of scientific research. Newton’s pivotal work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which sets out his laws of universal gravitation and motion, is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science. Niccolò Guicciardini’s enlightening biography offers an accessible introduction both to Newton’s celebrated research in mathematics, optics, mechanics, and astronomy and to how Newton viewed these scientific fields in relation to his quest for the deepest secrets of the universe, matter theory and religion. Guicciardini sets Newton the natural philosopher in the troubled context of the religious and political debates ongoing during Newton’s life, a life spanning the English Civil Wars, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, and the Hanoverian succession. Incorporating the latest Newtonian scholarship, this fast-paced biography broadens our perception of both this iconic figure and the great scientific revolution of the early modern period.
Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Beckenham, Kent : Croom Helm
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
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"Adam Smith, a British economist and philosopher, is the father of economic theory. So, [this title] is an indispensable collection for economists and economics' lovers. The author, John Cunningham Wood, from Edith Cowan University, writes about the life of this leading economist (as the author says) and the books are focused on the critical assessments of Smith."--Amazon.com.
Author : Ingrid Hahne Rima
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782543350
The Classical Tradition in Economic Thought demonstrates that classicism, in all its many faces, is not only alive but generating an ongoing flow of interpretative literature which will be of interest to students and scholars concerned with economic theory and the history of economic thought as well as the heterodox schools in modern economics.
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Dissertation abstracts
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Author : David Boyce Hamilton
Publisher : Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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