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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Taylor, John A., 1942- British empiricism and early political economy. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005 (OCoLC)654375966 |
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| Named Person: | Gregory King; Gregory King |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John A Taylor |
| ISBN: | 0313313067 9780313313066 |
| OCLC Number: | 57208147 |
| Description: | x, 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preliminary remarks -- Mathematical probability and demographic prediction -- Gregory King : man of projects -- British empiricism and shop arithmetic -- Higher mathematics and seventeenth-century political economy -- Shop arithmetic, conversation, and projects -- Queen Anne's bounty -- Gregory King's methods of calculation -- What was political arithmetic, really? -- George Chalmers and the stagnation of political arithmetic -- Wobbles and perturbations. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of world history, no. 109. |
| Responsibility: | John A. Taylor. |
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<p>"Taylor leads his readers on a journey around, rather than through, King's "EstimateS". Engaging and well informed, he introduces us to King's circle of coversation and to forerunners and contemporaries among the illuminati DEGREESR if empiricism (English and continental)....Although Taylor cannot tell us on what most of the "EstimateS" was based (King left few notes), and though King's successors would use modern mathematics, Taylor persuades this reader that the estimates was calculated by the best means at hand and without political motivation. Taylor leaves the reader well informed about the contingent and circumstantial influences on the "EstimateS". He appends King's short autobiography, the 1696 "EstimateS" themselves, Robert Chalmers's brief biography of King, and finally, a bood bibliography. Altogether, this book deserves our praise and a wide readership. Math-phobic historians should know the text is fully reader friendly. Taylor makes it fun to learn all this." - <p>The Historian Read more...
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- England -- Population -- History -- 17th century.
- Wealth -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Demography -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- King, Gregory, -- 1648-1712.
- Richesse -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Démographie -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Angleterre -- Population -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
- Empirismus.
- Wirtschaftstheorie.
- England.
