Some British Empiricists in the Social Sciences, 1650-1900 (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 4, 2010
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780521128452
Subjects: Business & Investing -- Economics -- Theory; Business & Investing -- Popular Economics
First sentence: William Petty, the originator of national accounting, was one of the most remarkable products of the English seventeenth century, an age of great intellectual vigour, scientific curiosity and inventiveness.