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The genesis of macroeconomics : new ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton
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ISBN: 9780199543236 9780199543229 0199543232 0199543224 0191647829 0191562394 128197868X 9786611978686 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined. The cast of authors varies from doctors and physicians (Sir William Petty and Fran--ccedil--;ois Quesnay), to philosophers (David Hume and Adam Smith), to bankers (Richard Cantillon and Henry Thornton) to Prime Ministers of France (John Law and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot). These authors had very rich and varied careers and the book invites readers to imaginespecific moments in their careers that influenced both their lives and their writings. Building on these events the

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