Sir William Petty

1623 - 1687

About the Author

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.”]

In The Library:

• author: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, 2 vols. (1662)
• author: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, vol. 1 (1662)
• author: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, vol. 2 (1681)
• author: A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money (1856)