Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index
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