William Smart
Distribution of income, 1899
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.
Smart, eldest son of Alexander Smart and grandson of Reverend William Smart, was born in Barrhead, Scotland.
Works
[edit]- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Edwin Cannan (June 1915). "Obituary — William Smart". The Economic Journal. 25 (98). JSTOR 2222200.
- ^ Blaug, Mark, ed. (1986). "Smart, William". Who's Who in Economics: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1986 (2nd ed.). Wheatsheaf Books Limited lo. p. 790. ISBN 978-0-7450-0230-9 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Smart 1916, p. 2.
- ^ "William Smart". The History of Economic Thought, of The Institute for New Economic Thinking.
