3 Belford Park, EdinburghGrave of Joseph Shield Nicholson, Dean Cemetery
Joseph Shield Nicholson, FBA FRSE (9 November 1850 – 12 May 1927) was an English economist.
Life
Nicholson was born in Wrawby in Lincolnshire on 9 November 1850 the only son of Mary Anne Grant and her husband Rev Thomas Nicholson, minister of Banbury. He was educated at Lewisham School in London.[1]
In 1925, Nicholson resigned his chair due to ill health and died in Edinburgh on 12 May 1927.[7] He is buried with his wife, Jane (Jeannie) Walmsley Hodgson, in the 20th-century extension to Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, in the central section.
Works
Nicholson's writings represent a compromise between the methods of the historical school of German economics and those of the English deductive school. In his principal work, Principles of Political Economy (three volumes, 1893–1901), he closely follows John Stuart Mill in his selection of material,[8] but employs statistical and historical discussion, instead of the abstract reasoning from simple assumption that characterises Mill's work.
Rents, Wages, and Profits in Agriculture and Rural Depopulation (1906)
A Project of Empire (1909)[10]
Tales from Ariosto (1913)
Life and Genius of Ariosto (1914)
War finance (1917)
Nicholson also wrote three romances:
A Dreamer of Dreams (1889)
Thoth (1888)
Toxar (1890)[11]
References
^Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^"Joseph Shield Nicholson - oi". oxfordindex.oup.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1885
^Hutton, Alan (2006). "A Scottish tradition of applied economics in the twentieth century". In Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow (ed.). The history of Scottish economic thought. London: Routledge. pp. 237–238. ISBN 0415344379.
^Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910–11
^W. R. Scott, "Nicholson, Joseph Shield (1850–1927)", rev. John Maloney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) Retrieved 8 August 2016
^Hadley, Arthur T. (1894). "Principles of Political Economy . J. Shield Nicholson". Journal of Political Economy. 2 (3): 477–478. doi:10.1086/250238. ISSN 0022-3808.
^Groenewegen, Peter. "Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850-1927): An early student of Marshall at Cambridge, later quite critical of Marshall and his Economics" (PDF). History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
^Meredith, H. O. (1910). "Review of A Project of Empire by J. Shield Nicholson". The Economic Journal. 20 (77): 46–50. doi:10.2307/2220580. ISSN 0013-0133. JSTOR 2220580.
^W. R. Scott: ‘Nicholson, Joseph Shield... In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004). Retrieved 9 November 2010. Subscription required.
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