James Steuart published An Inquiry into the Principles of Political OEconomy in 1767, the First systematic treatise on economics, nine years before Adam Smith\'s Wealth of Nations.
A clear portrait of a modernizing and enlightened Steuart emerges from this book, opening up an alternative approach to many.
Traditional historiography has tended to disregard and even deny Steuart\'s oeuvre, categorizing him as the last, outdated advocate of mercantilist policies in Britain.
James Steuart published An Inquiry into the Principles of Political OEconomy in 1767, the First systematic treatise on economics, nine years before Adam Smith\'s Wealth of Nations