A study of the efforts of economists Henry Brougham and William Ellis provides a glimpse into a fascinating period in history when economic ideas were not well developed and when there was an intense competition to win the minds of the middle and lower classes.
A study of the efforts of economists Henry Brougham and William Ellis provides a glimpse into a fascinating period in history when economic ideas were...
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778 1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematics and then law, while his amateur scientific studies led him to become a fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-five. Called to both the Scottish and English bars, and moving in radical political circles, he became famous as a defender of free speech, a passionate abolitionist, and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review. After many years as an MP, he was given a peerage in 1830 and became Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey's Whig government,...
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778 1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematic...
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778 1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematics and then law, while his amateur scientific studies led him to become a fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-five. Called to both the Scottish and English bars, and moving in radical political circles, he became famous as a defender of free speech, a passionate abolitionist, and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review. After many years as an MP, he was given a peerage in 1830 and became Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey's Whig government,...
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778 1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematic...
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778 1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematics and then law, while his amateur scientific studies led him to become a fellow of the Royal Society at the age of twenty-five. Called to both the Scottish and English bars, and moving in radical political circles, he became famous as a defender of free speech, a passionate abolitionist, and co-founder of the Edinburgh Review. After many years as an MP, he was given a peerage in 1830 and became Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey's Whig government,...
A child prodigy, Henry Brougham (1778 1868), later Lord Brougham and Vaux, entered in 1792 the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on mathematic...
