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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1. Verfasser: Taylor, John A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Westport, Conn. u.a. Praeger 2005
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Contributions to the study of world history 109
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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.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index
Beschreibung:x, 193 S.
ISBN:0313313067
0-313-31306-7