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British empiricism and early political economy : Gregory King's 1696 estimates of national wealth and population
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British empiricism and early political economy : Gregory King's 1696 estimates of national wealth and population

Author: John A Taylor
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
Series: Contributions to the study of world history, no. 109
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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