The Economic Thought of William Petty by Hugh Goodacre

The Economic Thought of William Petty by Hugh Goodacre

William Petty (1623-87), long recognised as a founding father of English political economy, was actively involved in the military-colonial administration of Ireland following its invasion by Oliver Cromwell, and to the end of his days continued to devise schemes for securing England's continued domination of that country. It was in that context tha

"Hugh Goodacre’s excellent book..In its scrupulous engagement with several literatures and its powerful interpretation of Petty’s economic work, it points toward a more integrated view of Petty and of the place of economic ideas in the welter of seventeenth-century developments in which he had a role."

Ted McCormick, History of Political Economy

Hugh Goodacre is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Westminster, and a Teaching Fellow at University College London. He was formerly a Senior Curator for Asia, Africa, Pacific Collections at the British Library, where he worked from 1972 to 1996, specialising in Arabic. His research project is to explore the influence of colonialist ideology on the economics discipline.

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ISBN 13	9780367666651
ISBN 10	0367666650
Title	The Economic Thought of William Petty
Author	Hugh Goodacre
Series	Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2020-09-30
Number of pages	262
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