British empiricism and early political economy Gregory King's 1696 estimates of national wealth and population
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...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Westport, Conn. u.a.
Praeger
2005
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Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
Schriftenreihe: | Contributions to the study of world history
109 |
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King, Gregory <1648-1712>
> King, Gregory
> Geschichte 1600-1700
> Démographie - Angleterre - Histoire - 17e siècle
> Richesse - Angleterre - Histoire - 17e siècle
> Geschichte
> Wealth
> History
> Demography
> Wirtschaftstheorie
> Empirismus
> Angleterre - Population - Histoire - 17e siècle
> England
> Population
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index |
Beschreibung: | x, 193 S. |
ISBN: | 0313313067 0-313-31306-7 |