The Scope and Method of Economic Science: An Address Delivered to the Economic Science and Statistics Section of the British Association at Aberdeen, 10 September, 1885

by Henry Sidgwick

Excerpt from The Scope and Method of Economic Science: An Address Delivered to the Economic Science and Statistics Section of the British Association at Aberdeen, 10 September, 1885

It is true, as I have said, that among Adam Smith's disciples there were not a few who rushed to the sweeping generalisations that the master had avoided. In England, in particular, the influence of the more abstract and purely deductive method of Ricardo tended in this direction. It was natural.

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70 pages, Hardcover

First published April 17, 2013

About the author

Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1883 until his death, and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics. He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society and promoted the higher education of women. His work in economics has also had a lasting influence.