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William Smart (economist)

Scottish economist (1853–1915) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Smart (economist)
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William Smart (10 April 1853 – 19 March 1915) was a Scottish economist.[1][2] Initially inspired by Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin,[3] Smart was a translator and was largely responsible for dissemination of the thought of the Austrian School,[4] before being won over to the neoclassicalism of Alfred Marshall.

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Distribution of income, 1899

Smart, eldest son of Alexander Smart and grandson of Reverend William Smart, was born in Barrhead, Scotland.

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Works

  • Smart, William (1883). John Ruskin: His Life and Work. Wilson & McCormick.
  • Smart, William (1891). An Introduction to the Theory of Value: on the Lines of Menger, Wieser, and Böhm-Bawerk. London: Macmillan Company via Internet Archive. 2nd edition
  • Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von (1890). Capital and Interest, a critical history of economical theory. Translated by Smart, William. London, New York: Macmillan and Co. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  • Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von (1891). The Positive Theory of Capital. Translated by Smart, William. New York: G.E. Stechert. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  • Smart, William (1904). The Return to Protection. London: Macmillan via Internet Archive.; via Mises.org
  • Smart, William (1910). Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century: 1801–1830. London: Macmillan and Company, Limited via Internet Archive.
  • Smart, William (1917). Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century: 1821–1830. Macmillan and Company, limited.
  • Smart, William (1895). "Glasgow and Its Municipal Industries". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 9 (2): 188–194. doi:10.2307/1885599. JSTOR 1885599.
  • Clark, J. Maurice (1917). "Reviewed Work: Second Thoughts of an Economist, by William Smart". Journal of Political Economy. 25 (4): 402–404. doi:10.1086/252976. JSTOR 1819087.
  • Smart, William (1916). Second Thoughts of an Economist. London: Macmillan and Co.
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