Adam Anderson (economist)

Adam Anderson (1692 or 1693 – 10 January 1765) was a Scottish economist. He was a clerk for forty years in South Sea House, the headquarters of the South Sea Company, where he published a work entitled Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, containing a History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire (1762, 2 vols. fol.).

Late in his life Anderson traveled to the American colonies, begetting a son, Adam E. Anderson, later noted for being an early settler and planner of the Ohio Territory.

His brother was the freemason James Anderson.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anderson, Adam". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce (four volume edition):
  • volume one
  • volume two
  • volume three
  • volume four

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Adam Anderson.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Anderson, Adam.