1. 33 Economic Bestsellers published before 1750.
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Reinert, Erik S. and Reinert, Fernanda A.
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ECONOMICS literature , *ECONOMICS bibliographies , *HISTORY of economics , *ECONOMISTS - Abstract
This article looks at 33 economics books that were published before 1750 and appeared in ten editions or more before 1850. This is a period – before Physiocracy and before the works of Adam Smith – which has been largely neglected in the history of economic thought. The article sheds new light on the early bestselling contributions of German and Italian economists, and on an internationally famous Spanish economist at the time. Also of interest is that three of the bestselling English economists of the period are so forgotten that they do not even have an entry in Wikipedia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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