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The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750-1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations.

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The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750-1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations.
Autorenporträt
Brian P. Cooper is an independent scholar whose research explores the boundaries of economics past and present. His publications include Family Fictions and Family Facts: Harriet Martineau, Adolphe Quetelet, and the Population Question in England, 1798-1859 (2007), and "Social Classifications, Social Statistics and the 'Facts' of 'Difference' in Economics", in Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (2003).