金钱,其他经济论文
原书名:Of Money, and Other Economic Essays
原作者:大卫·休谟(David Hume)
原语种:英语
原书版权:公有领域
本书简介
This eBook contains 7 economic essays which were first published in Hume's Political Discourses (1752) and republished in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 1 (1758, 1777). One essay has been praised by the Nobel-Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, who said in his newspaper column: "... Hume also helped found economics: his 'Of the Balance of Trade', published 34 years before The Wealth of Nations, was arguably the first example of modern economic reasoning, based on what amounts to a stylized model, albeit one without any equations or diagrams." (New York Times, 8 May 2011, "Hume Day".) ... "You could argue that modern economics really began with David Hume’s 'Of the Balance of Trade', whose core is a gloriously clear thought experiment...." (ibid., 2 Feb 2011, "Models, Plain and Fancy".) Adam Smith (1723-1790), the author of The Wealth of Nations (1776), is commonly considered the "father of modern economics", but Hume pre-dated Smith in that regard. Both were Scottish philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, and although Hume was a decade older than Smith, they became lifelong friends after they met in 1750. The essays cover Commerce, Money, Interest, Balance of Trade, Jealousy of Trade, Taxes, and Public Credit (national debt). Hume explained economic phenomena we observe even today, such as the self-correction of job migration to lower cost countries, money supply issues, the undesirable results of tariffs, military buildup in underdeveloped countries, and other topics that give insights into the happenings we read about in the news almost daily.
作者简介
大卫·休谟(David Hume,1711年5月7日-1776年8月25日)是苏格兰的哲学家、经济学家、和历史学家,他被视为是苏格兰启蒙运动以及西方哲学历史中最重要的人物之一。虽然现代对于休谟的著作研究聚焦于其哲学思想上,他最先是以历史学家的身份成名。他所著的《英格兰史》一书在当时成为英格兰历史学界的基础著作长达60至70年。


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