Sir William Petty

1623 - 1687

Titles on this disk:

• author: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, vol. 1
• author: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, vol. 2
• author: A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money

About this person:

One of the pioneers of economic thought well before Adam Smith. He was a secretary to Thomas Hobbes. [The image comes from “The Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection at Duke University.”]