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041 0 eng
043 e-uk-en
050 00 HB3585|b.T39 2005
082 00 304.6/0942/09032|222
100 1 Taylor, John A.,|d1942-
245 10 British empiricism and early political economy :|bGregory
King's 1696 estimates of national wealth and population /
|cJohn A. Taylor
260 Westport, Conn. :|bPraeger,|c2005
300 x, 193 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm
440 0 Contributions to the study of world history,|x0885-9159 ;
|vno. 109
504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and
index
505 0 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
600 10 King, Gregory,|d1648-1712
650 0 Wealth|zEngland|xHistory|y17th century
650 0 Demography|zEngland|xHistory|y17th century
651 0 England|xPopulation|xHistory|y17th century
856 41 |zTable of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054
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