David Ricardo’s Rent Theory and Modern Times

David Hume and Modern Economics

Hume’s contribution to modern economics is normally thought of in terms of his early statement of the quantity theory of money, and to a lesser extent his views on trade and development. At a methodological level the influence from his empiricism is commonly traced to the development of econometrics. But if we explore his philosophy more fully, we find a much richer set of ideas which can illum...

David Rittenhouse: Modern Mathematician

O n the surface it seems implausible that a colonial scientist could be characterized as a mathematician by today’s standards. Yet the single aim of this note is to provide evidence that two of David Rittenhouse’s papers from 220 years ago qualify him as a modern analyst. Rittenhouse (1732–1796) had no formal education and never earned a degree. Except for a brief appointment as professor of as...

Modern Times

Diabetes : Modern Times.

*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypep...

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times (1986).