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>since economics is a rather new science Isaac Newton's Principia was first published in English in 1728. Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776.
by chroem- 7y ago
>since economics is a rather new science
Isaac Newton's Principia was first published in English in 1728. Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776. That's a 48 year head start out of the nearly 250 years we have had both physics and economics.
- QuesnayJr 7y agoEconomics as a serious empirical science is a post-World War 2 phenomenon. Ptolemy had better data about the planets in the second century than we had about the economy in the early twentieth century.