Front Page Authors (by Period) Edwin Cannan

Edwin Cannan

1861 - 1935

About the Author

Edwin Cannan is most frequently honored for his extensive opus editing Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. He also wrote on production and distribution, capital, money, and the history of economics. His influences and contemporaries included W. S. Jevons, Alfred Marshall, and protégé Lionel Robbins. He taught at the London School of Economics, where he was chairman for many years.

In The Library:

• author: “The Application of the Theoretical Apparatus of Supply and Demand to Units of Currency” (1921)
• editor: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), in 2 vols. (1776)
• editor: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), vol. 1 (1776)
• editor: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), vol. 2 (1776)
• author: Wealth: A Brief Explanation of the Causes of Economic Wealth (1914)