SCOTT, William Robert.

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The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720. First edition, first impression, presentation copy, with the University Court of the University of St Andrews compliments slip laid in to vol. I, and "and of the author" added in ink below printed text, and with the ownership inscriptions of economist Earl J. Hamilton to the front free endpapers, with his note recording the gift to the front pastedowns of vols. II and III: "Presented to me by the author & the University Court St Andrews, Apr. (Sept.) 1911". Earl Jefferson Hamilton was a major historian of Spanish economics and of John Law in particular; "his combination of economic and historical erudition is a model of cliometrics" (New Palgrave II, p. 588).This is Scott's best known and definitive work on British joint-stock companies. In the first volume he outlines the beginnings and the development of the joint-stock system until 1720; the second and third volumes present a detailed comparison of the accounts of the chief companies and the social, economic, foreign, and ethical factors which influenced their growth. Scott was the Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at Glasgow University from 1915 until his death in 1940. He was an expert on the life and works of Smith, and his edition of Wealth of Nations was published in 1921. Scott served on a variety of government and editorial committees as an advisor on economics, and he was the President of both the Royal Philosophical

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