Gregory King

Gregory King (December 15, 1648 - August 29, 1712) English genealogist, civil servant and "the first great economic statistician."

Resources and external links

For King's estimate of the country's population and wealth in 1688 see

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• Gregory King’s estimate of population and wealth, England and Wales, 1688. from Materials for the History of Statistics

Richard Stone's Nobel Prize lecture on the history of social accounting contains a brief account of King's work (including some tables)

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• The Accounts of Society from Nobel prize page

For Gregory King's law see

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The article on Davenant in the Palgrave Dictionary written at the end of the 19th century.

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• Charles Davenant from Archive for the History of Economic Thought

Whewell's discussion at the end of Lecture III

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• Six Lectures from Archive for the History of Economic Thought

Jevons's discussion in the Section on the Variation of the Price of Corn in chapter IV

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• The Theory of Political Economy