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9780415241755

Physicians and Political Economy: Six Studies of the Work of Doctor Economists

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415241755

  • ISBN10:

    0415241758

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-05-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This book examines the life and work of six doctor-economists: Petty, Locke, Barbon, Mandeville, Quesnay and Juglar. It studies the interaction between their medical practice and their economics.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xii
Introductory remarks
1(9)
Peter Groenewegen
Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty
10(16)
Tony Aspromourgos
The significance of John Locke's medical studies for the history of economic thought
26(22)
William Oliver Coleman
The infinity of human desires and the advantages of trade: Nicholas Barbon and the wants of the mind
48(19)
Marina Bianchi
Exposure to strangers and superfluities: Mandeville's regimen for great wealth and foreign treasure
67(26)
Neil De Marchi
From prominent physician to major economist: some reflections on Quesnay's switch to economics in the 1750s
93(23)
Peter Groenewegen
Joseph Clement Juglar (1819-1905): from physician to analyst of business cycles
116(14)
Peter Groenewegen
Epilogue: two centuries of physician-economist, 1650-1848
130(15)
Peter Groenewegen
Index 145

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