The Genesis of Macroeconomics
Murphy, Antoin E. (, Associate Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)
This is a book about the discovery of the great macroeconomic concepts and ideas by a group of very exciting people between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth century. The writers concerned included the anatomist Sir William Petty, John Law a convicted Scottish murderer who became Prime Minister of France, Richard Cantillon, a multi-millionaire banker apparently murdered in London in 1734, the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, the Frenc...